# Sarra Manning > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Sarra_Manning > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Sarra_Manning.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarra_Manning > Source revision: 1328195991 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous. Find sources: "Sarra Manning" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (February 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this message) English writer and journalist **Sarra Manning** is an English writer and journalist. She attended the [University of Sussex](/source/University_of_Sussex) and took an English with media studies degree. She became a freelance writer after submitting her work to *[Melody Maker](/source/Melody_Maker)*. She worked as the entertainment editor for five years of the now-defunct teen magazine *[Just Seventeen](/source/Just_Seventeen)*. Manning was the editor of *[Elle Girl](/source/Elle_Girl)* (UK edition), then re-launched *What To Wear* magazine for the BBC and has worked on UK magazines such as *Bliss* and *[The Face](/source/The_Face_(magazine))*. She has contributed to *[Elle](/source/Elle_(magazine))*, *[Seventeen](/source/Seventeen_(American_magazine))*, *The Guardian* and *[Details](/source/Details_(magazine))* and is a contributing editor to *Elle UK*. She writes regularly for *[Grazia](/source/Grazia)*, *[Red](/source/Red_(magazine))* and *Stella*, as well as consulting for a number of British magazine publishers. Her books include teen fiction book *Guitar Girl*, and the *Diary of a Crush* trilogy. Manning is currently[*[when?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items)*] the literary editor of *Red* magazine, a UK women's magazine.[1] ## Novels She has written over 25 novels, both young adult and adult.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] Her first young adult novel, *Guitar Girl*, was published in 2003. Her first adult novel, *Unsticky*, was published by Headline in 2009.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] ## Personal life She currently[*[when?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items)*] lives in [North London](/source/North_London). She had a Staffordshire Bull Terrier, Miss Betsy, and is an advocate for dog adoption.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] ## Publications - *Guitar Girl* - UK, 2003; US, 2004 - *Diary of a Crush 1: French Kiss* - UK, 2004; US, 2006 - *Diary of a Crush 2: Kiss and Make Up* - UK, 2004 (parts given away with *Just Seventeen* under the title, *Losing It*); US, 2006 - *Diary of a Crush 3: Sealed with a Kiss* - UK, 2004 (parts given away with *Just Seventeen* under the title, *American Dream*); US. 2006 - *Pretty Things* - UK & US, 2005 - *Let's Get Lost* - UK & US, 2006 - *Fashionistas 1: Laura* - UK, 2007 - *Fashionistas 2: Hadley* - UK, 2007 - *Fashionistas 3: Irina* - UK, 2008 - *Fashionistas 4: Candy* - UK, 2008 - *Unsticky* - UK, 2009 - *Nobody's Girl* - UK, 2010 - *You Don't Have to Say You Love Me* - UK, 2011 - *Nine Uses For An Ex-Boyfriend* - UK, 2012 - *Adorkable* - UK, 2012 - *It Felt Like A Kiss* - 2013 - *Diary of a Grace* - 2014 - *The Worst Girlfriend In The World* - UK, 2014 - *It felt like a Kiss* - 2014 - *After The Last Dance* - UK, 2016 - *London Belongs to Us* - UK, 2016 - *The House of Secrets* - UK, 2017 - *The Rise and Fall of Becky Sharp* - UK, 2018 - *Rescue Me* - UK, 2021 - *London, with Love* - UK, 2022 - *The Man of Her Dreams* - UK, 2023 - *The Last Days of Summer* - UK, 2025 ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Sarra Manning"](https://amheath.com/authors/sarra-manning/). AM Heath Literary Agents. Retrieved 4 March 2019. ## External links - [Official author's blog](http://sarramanning.blogspot.com) - [Author's *MySpace* page](http://www.myspace.com/sarramanning) - [Author details](https://web.archive.org/web/20070928020634/http://www.hodderheadline.co.uk/authordetails.asp?author=19035&page=1&best=) - [Sarra Manning](http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000061228,00.html?sym=BIO), Penguin Group (USA) - ["Spotlight on Sarra Manning"](https://web.archive.org/web/20071204230458/http://www.bbc.co.uk/blast/writing/people/sarra_manning.shtml), *BBC Blast Writing* Authority control databases International ISNI VIAF WorldCat National United States France BnF data Czech Republic Netherlands Poland Israel Catalonia --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Sarra Manning](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarra_Manning) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarra_Manning?action=history)). 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