Sue bentley biography

Telling Lies For A Living

By sue bentley•November 23, 2021

Yes, in essence, that’s what I do.

I make things up!

Sue was born in Northampton where she still lives.

Sue was born in Northampton where she still lives.

Sue Bentley was born in Northampton, England.

Sue writes fiction for children, young adults and adults.

Sue Bentley is a prolific author and writes across the genres for different age groups.

Sue Bentley is the best-selling author of over 80 books for children and adults.

You could say I tell lies – really big, complex ones. I fabricate characters and settings and expect readers to care about people who don’t exist. I do my best to convince them that my characters and the world they inhabit are real.

In short I have become an expert in deceit. (You can get ten years for that!) I’m afraid I’m shameless about this. I have no choice in the matter.

I live in Northamptonshire a County in the East Midlands of the UK, where I was born.

The art of writing a short story or a novel, is to persuade the reader to go along with one on a journey of pretend. In fact, to weave such a feasible web of lies that one lures the reader into that magical state, which is ‘suspension of disbelief’.

When I discovered books at a young age, I ate up books, simply couldn’t get enough of them. But I wasn’t consciously aware of how a book came into being. I loved getting lost