The Uninvited Guests

About Sadie Jones

Sadie Jones is the critically acclaimed author of six novels. Her first The Outcast won the Costa First Novel Award was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and was a Richard and Judy Number One bestseller. Her second Small Wars 2009 was longlisted for the Orange Prize. The Uninvited Guests was published in 2010. Also a screenwriter Sadie adapted The Outcast for BBC Television in 2014 directed by Iain Softley and starring George Mackay. Her fourth novel Fallout came out the same year and her fifth The Snakes in 2019. Her sixth novel Amy and Lan was published in July 2022. Sadie is the daughter of the Jamaican screenwriter novelist and poet Evan Jones and British actress Joanna Jones. She was born and brought up in London and is married to the architect Tim Boyd.