Sara Banerji

The daughter of novelist Anita Mostyn, Sara Banerji was born in England but spent part of her childhood in the African bush. She later moved back to England, where she met her future husband, an Indian-born undergraduate studying at Oxford University. After they married, the pair moved to India; they spent the first seventeen years of their married life in the South Indian Hills tea planting and bringing up three daughters. During that time Sara rode as a jockey on the flat and held exhibitions of her paintings in Madras and Delhi. She and her family now live in Oxford.