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Sarah Cornwell is an author and screenwriter living in Los Angeles. Her debut novel "What I Had Before I Had You" was published by HarperCollins in January 2014. She is the recipient of a Humanitas Award and the Gulf Coast prize for short fiction.
Sarah Cornwell grew up in Narberth, Pennsylvania. Her fiction has appeared in publications including The 2013 Pushcart Prize Anthology, The Missouri Review, Mid-American Review, Gulf Coast, and Hunger Mountain, and her screenwriting has been honored with a Humanitas Prize.
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Jan 7, 2014 · In What I Had Before I Had You by Sarah Cornwell, a woman must face the truth about her past in this luminous, evocative literary novel of parents and children, guilt and forgiveness, memory and magical thinking, set in the faded, gritty world of the New Jersey Shore.
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Jan 7, 2014 · Sarah Cornwell's debut novel What I Had Before I Had You respectfully addresses the sensitive and confronting subject matter of mental illness - bi polar disorder specifically. Cornwell offers insight into an imperfect family dealing with three generations of bi polar disorder.
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Jul 24, 2014 · Sarah Cornwell's What I Had Before I Had You is a beautiful, poignant, and exquisitely written novel about the ripple effects mental illness causes on a family. Olivia Reed was raised by her dynamic and manic mother, Myla, a practicing psychic, in the Jersey Shore town of Ocean Vista.
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Jan 7, 2014 · Written in radiant prose and with stunning psychological acuity, award-winning author Sarah Cornwell's What I Had Before I Had You is a deeply poignant story...
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Sarah Cornwell seamlessly weaves together the past and the present in this riveting debut novel, as she examines the relationships between mothers and daughters, and the powerful forces of loss, family history, and magical thinking.