Categories include Parenting, Grief, Christian faith, Step-parenting, Travel and France. Glass Half Full: Our Australian Adventure, her debut travel memoir, and the sequel Two dogs and a suitcase: Clueless in Charente, are regularly found high in the Amazon rankings. She is now an International Best Selling author of three travel memoirs set in Australia and France and she has a further two non fiction books scheduled for release in November 2014. Sarah Jane loves to connect with her readers so feel free to connect on Twitter or Facebook at or Sarah Jane, the roving Florence Nightingale, fulfilled her childhood dream of becoming a nurse and went on to use her nursing and later teaching qualifications to take her around the world.

Married three times with four children, three stepchildren and two playful Australian Cattle dogs she an experienced modern day mum to her 'Brady bunch', but she loves every minute of their convoluted lives.

Sarah Jane is a wife, mother, ex-qualified nurse and now an Internationally published author. About the AuthorĪuthor Sarah Jane Butfield was born in Ipswich, and raised in rural Suffolk, UK. How many life-changing events can one family endure before they reach breaking point? Find out in this inspirational and touching true story. This book tells how this amazing woman and her courageous family fought to keep their dream alive and used every piece of positivity available to create new hope and new beginnings. Just when they thought the worst was over Mother Nature intervened and washed away the roots to their new life during the Brisbane floods of 2011. They worked and planned hard to make it a success and it was amazing until life-changing events started to test the foundations of this resilient family. After enduring a messy divorce and numerous child custody battles Sarah Jane knew that this was their only chance of future happiness and that as a family they were making the right decisions.

Why was the decision so tough? Well the family is a step-family, and leaving meant that some of the children would remain in the UK with ex-partners. Glass Half Full: our Australian adventure is the story of a UK family who made one of the toughest decisions of their lives, to emigrate to outback Australia, to live the Australian dream.

Glass Half Full by Sarah Jane Butfield