Sarah Bailey is a Melbourne-based writer with a background in advertising and communications. She has two young children and is currently the Managing Partner of advertising agency VMLY&R in Melbourne. Her internationally award-winning Gemma Woodstock trilogy includes The Dark Lake, winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction and the Davitt Award for Best Debut, followed by Into the Night and Where the Dead Go in 2019. The Housemate is her first standalone novel. Follow her at @SarahBailey1982.