Shari biography
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About Shari
Ok, so I’ll try to avoid that deluded state where I believe that everyone wants to hear my cute childhood stories, and keep to the important stuff.
I was born in a town near Glasgow, where inom spent my teenage years dreaming of the day I’d follow in my beloved Jackie Collins’ footsteps all the way to a life of decadent glamour and a kidney shaped swimming pool in LA.
Alas, the combination of bills and a nocturnal predisposition changed my course, and I opted for a career in nightclub and hotel management in Scotland, Shanghai and Hong Kong.
Sometime in the 90s, I was back in Glasgow, when a guy I hated on sight walked towards me. inom changed my mind after thirty seconds. Seven days later, we moved in together and threw an engagement party. We’ve now been married for almost thirty years and thankfully he still hasn’t made a bid for escape.
I still harboured that dream of writing, and inom eventually acted on it when I hit 30, had a mid-life crisis, and penned the first thre
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Shari (actress)
Indian actress
Shari | |
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| Born | Sadhana |
| Occupation | Film actor |
| Spouse | Kumar (m. 1991) |
| Children | Kalyani (b.1996) |
| Parent(s) | Subramaniam, Lakshmi Devi |
| Relatives | Ashwanth Thilak (nephew) |
Sadhana better known by her stage name Shari is an Indian actress. She was a prominent lead actress from 1982 to 1995 in Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, and Telugu films.[1]
Personal life
[edit]Sadhana was born to Subramaniam and Lakshmi Devi in Andhra Pradesh. She is a trained classical dancer who learned Bharata Natyam from Padma Subrahmanyam and Kuchipudi from Vempati Chinna Satyam. She had her primary education from Saraswathi Vidyalaya Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Chennai. She is the grand daughter of famous Kannada actress B. Ramadevi.
She married Kumar, a businessman, in 1991. They have a daughter, Kalyani born in 1996.[2] She resides with her family in Chennai.
Career
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SHARI LAPENA is the #1 internationally bestselling author of eight suspense novels including The Couple Next Door, A Stranger in the House, An Unwanted Guest, Someone We Know, The End of Her, Not a Happy Family, Everyone Here is Lying, and What Have You Done?
A former lawyer and English teacher, Shari now writes full time from a farm in Ontario, where she lives with her husband.
Her first thriller, The Couple Next Door, was a runaway global bestseller, selling 4 million copies worldwide. It was WHSmith’s “Book of the Year” in 2016 and the #1 Adult Fiction Title in the UK for 2017. All of Shari’s novels have been New York Times, UK Sunday Times, and Globe and Mail bestsellers. Three of her books have been Richard & Judy Book Club Picks. Her books have sold into forty territories around the world and have been optioned for film and TV.
She doesn’t want you to be able to put her books down.