Sarah-Kate Lynch

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Sarah-Kate Lynch is quite a cranky journalist of several decades who prefers making things up to recording them accurately. This is not very good if you are a journalist, which may explain (a) the crankiness and (b) why she now writes novels.

She also writes two columns in the New Zealand Woman's Weekly, New Zealand's best-read magazine. One is about nothing and the other is about books.

Sarah-Kate lives in a cliff top house on the wild west coast of New Zealand's North Island (not, by the way, the one pictured below) and is currently very glad she has not bothered to amass a fortune thereby saving herself the angst of having it halved.

She is also glad she lives on a cliff top because what with global warming and all, she could be underwater as well as poor.

As it is she lives very happily with a lovely dog called Ginger and a husband called Ted. Oh, hang on, no, that's not right. The dog is called Ted and the husband is Ginger.



House of Daughters is my new book just published in the US. It is rather cleverly the story of three estranged sisters who inherit a rather crumbling champagne house in France. The cleverness comes with having had to drown myself in champagne while researching the story. Oh yes, I can be quite tireless when duty requires it.

I spent six weeks in Champagne finding out how champagne is made and why that one doesn't taste like that one. Or does it? Hang on, perhaps I had better try it again. No it is different. Or is it? Just one more go. More different this time. Or less? Not sure.

You get the drift.

During my travels I was lucky enough to be a guest of Veuve Cliquot, Moet & Chandon and even wangled a lunch out of Remy Krug at Krug Champagne.

However, my favourite discovery was the House of Tarlant, a small boutique champagne house, much more like my fictional House of Peine, because it is all run by one family and they grow all their own grapes.

The Tarlants now sell my book from their winery near Epernay so I am assuming I got everything right. Although of course they speak French and the book is written in English.
 

Selected Works

Fiction
On Top Of Everything
Florence Dowling believes rotten things happen in threes so when she's fired by her business partner and left by her husband she knows there's worse to come...the surprise is that there's better to come as well.
House of Daughters
US version of The House of Peine. Mathilde, Clementine and Sophie have nothing in common except the champagne that runs in their blood. But is that enough?
The House of Peine
Three estranged sisters battle it out among the vineyards of France when they inherit a failing Champagne House.
Eating With The Angels
Life turns sour for a high-falutin' restaurant critic when her romantic Venetian honeymoon turns into a nightmare.
By Bread Alone
“Witty, charming, faithfully passionate to its subject and emotionally adept. If only this book was a man.”
-Sunday Star Times
Blessed Are the Cheesemakers
“In the spirit of Chocolat...a tender love story told through the medium of cheese.”
-Publishers Weekly
Finding Tom Connor
“A cross between Bridget Jones’s Diary and Waking Ned Devine, this is a romantic and rollicking good read.”
-Next Magazine
Non-Fiction
The Modern Girl’s Guide to Life
A smorgasbord of columns from the New Zealand Woman’s Weekly’s favourite columnist.
Short Stories
Bosom Buddies
A collection of entertaining, powerful & thought-provoking short stories by some of the finest contemporary writers in New Zealand and the United Kingdom.