https://www.sarahbilston.org/home daily 1.0 2026-04-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a1ee3477131a5e6e73c105b/1710178272907-XCR09AK0QJY661YILUPA/Screenshot%252B2024-03-11%252Bat%252B1.30.02%252BPM.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a1ee3477131a5e6e73c105b/18177dda-ec82-4c04-89fd-f6586eb9371b/LOST+ORCHID.jpeg Home - Make it stand out Released May 6 2025 - Kirkus Starred Review. One of the New Yorker and the Economist’s Best Books of 2025. Audiobook coming July 2026! https://www.sarahbilston.org/what-we-do daily 0.75 2026-04-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a1ee3477131a5e6e73c105b/1611673198427-WZDU0G15MXLQDKDSTAC9/IMG_3161.jpg About Sarah Bilston https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a1ee3477131a5e6e73c105b/bf12e997-384e-458f-b146-dc5652f80ef7/Sarah-Bilston-04.JPG.jpeg About Sarah Bilston - I’m a writer and researcher; my fiction has been published in 9 languages. I earned my doctorate from the University of Oxford and teach at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. I’m the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of English at Trinity and currently Chair the English Department. Photograph courtesy of Nick Caito, Trinity College Communications and Marketing https://www.sarahbilston.org/fiction daily 0.75 2017-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a1ee3477131a5e6e73c105b/1511991695714-1JR5IXJG6VCS44NP1OZN/41lYwq7-QBL.jpeg Bed Rest https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a1ee3477131a5e6e73c105b/1511991695714-1JR5IXJG6VCS44NP1OZN/41lYwq7-QBL.jpeg Bed Rest https://www.sarahbilston.org/sleepless-nights daily 0.75 2017-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a1ee3477131a5e6e73c105b/1511994834312-ZJUKVWPW9PNUFXBCG2EG/41-29bvPr8L.jpeg Sleepless Nights A Washington Post Spring Pick, 2006 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a1ee3477131a5e6e73c105b/1511994834312-ZJUKVWPW9PNUFXBCG2EG/41-29bvPr8L.jpeg Sleepless Nights A Washington Post Spring Pick, 2006 https://www.sarahbilston.org/the-awkward-age daily 0.75 2025-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a1ee3477131a5e6e73c105b/1511992019489-FS9DGXFUTUQ9EB64GB0G/412HCHXQ6XL._SX301_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg The Awkward Age https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a1ee3477131a5e6e73c105b/1511992019489-FS9DGXFUTUQ9EB64GB0G/412HCHXQ6XL._SX301_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg The Awkward Age https://www.sarahbilston.org/speaking-of-suburbia daily 0.75 2022-03-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a1ee3477131a5e6e73c105b/1511991958376-F6K4ALPLVLECR588RO1O/Bilstonfig05.jpg The Promise of the Suburbs The Landlady, 1856 (oil on canvas): James Collinson, (1825-81). Credit: Sheffield Galleries and Museums Trust, UK/Bridgeman Images. Geraniums and Venetian blinds were familiar Victorian codes for the suburban. The young woman is advertising rooms "to let": numerous Victorian novels begin with a stranger arriving in a suburban locale and working to make sense of the inhabitants. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a1ee3477131a5e6e73c105b/1511991958376-F6K4ALPLVLECR588RO1O/Bilstonfig05.jpg The Promise of the Suburbs The Landlady, 1856 (oil on canvas): James Collinson, (1825-81). Credit: Sheffield Galleries and Museums Trust, UK/Bridgeman Images. Geraniums and Venetian blinds were familiar Victorian codes for the suburban. The young woman is advertising rooms "to let": numerous Victorian novels begin with a stranger arriving in a suburban locale and working to make sense of the inhabitants. https://www.sarahbilston.org/the-lost-orchid daily 0.75 2026-04-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a1ee3477131a5e6e73c105b/976426e2-43d8-4914-8d77-8c8ffa3d6999/LOST+ORCHID.jpeg The Lost Orchid https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a1ee3477131a5e6e73c105b/976426e2-43d8-4914-8d77-8c8ffa3d6999/LOST+ORCHID.jpeg The Lost Orchid