Sarah Clutton lives in a storybook village in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales on Gundungurra and Tharawal country. She has tried her hand at various jobs: research assistant, judge's associate, insurance claims guru, litigation lawyer, philanthropic foundation manager and ghost-writer. In between freelance writing gigs she is events manager for her local chapter of Rural Australians for Refugees. In 2018 she was the national recipient of the Dymocks/McIntosh Commercial Fiction Scholarship. The Remarkable Truths of Alfie Bains pays homage to her early years on a farm in North West Tasmania, and to the charms and challenges of small-town living.