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Sadie Jones (born 1967) is an English writer and novelist.

Jones was raised in London, the daughter of Evan Jones, a Jamaican-born poet and scriptwriter, who worked with director Joseph Losey on several projects and Joanna Jones, an actor. Sadie Jones was educated at the Godolphin and Latymer School, a school she disliked.

Jones lived in Paris as a young woman, worked as a waitress and wrote four unproduced scripts and a play, among other things, before her debut novel, The Outcast, was published. It won the First Novel award in the 2008 Costa Book Awards and has been translated into several languages.

Sadie Jones' second novel, Small Wars, is set in 1957 Cyprus in 1957 and inspired by the war events in Afghanistan. It was published at the end of August 2009. She has reportedly completed a screenplay for a movie version of The Outcast.

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