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Sarah Waters biography
Sarah Waters was born in in Pembrokeshire, a county in South West Wales. Her father, Ron, was an engineer and her mother, Mary, was a housewife.
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She has one much older sister, so grew up almost as an only child. Encouraged to be creative by her father, she wrote 'terrible gothic pastiches'1 and built Airfix models of classic planes.
A pastiche is a work of art or literature that imitates another work or works from a previous era.
Unlike parody, a pastiche does not mock another work.
Following in her parent’s footsteps, Waters attended Milford Haven Grammar School. She has mentioned that provincial Wales did not generally promote explorations of sexual preferences outside the heterosexual.
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As a result, while at Milford, she dated a few teenage boys who were 'a bit effete'.1
Moving to Whitstable, she received a BA in English Literature from the University of Kent. This was followed by an MA from Lancaster University and then a Ph.D.
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