Sara Fox

Settling into a story that spans generations brings a complexity of rewards. Watching the drama unfold over generations, how global events affect them or changes social history. Sara Fox explores the joy of the historical family saga.

Victorian Birmingham, where industry swallowed the green spaces and Joseph Chamberlain reshaped a city. Discover respectable leisure and the history behind Birmingham Botanical Gardens, then meet Angelina: an Irish Romani midwife and layer-out of the dead, as she experiences the gardens for the first time. An exclusive excerpt from my forthcoming historical novel Angelina, set against the grit and magnificence of 1870s Birmingham.

Not every father is the one who raises you. Some of them find you later, when you need them most, and love you in exactly the way you need to be loved; even if they don't know that's what they're doing.