Best-selling author Sarah Turnbull quickly sells Avalon home

The Avalon Beach home of Sarah Turnbull, who wrote the international best seller Almost French, and her lawyer partner Frederic Veniere, has sold in just nine days.

They had a guide of $1.9 million for the three bedroom, plus study, Riverview Road home through Belle Property Avalon agents Greg Griffin and Alexander Schreiber.

The couple paid $1,295,000 for the 1950s, three bedroom cottage with gun barrel views over Pittwater in 2008.

Three bedroom homes in Avalon Beach have a current median house price of $1.6 million.

Another local, fashion magazine editor Justine Cullen, still awaits a buyer.

This article was first published in the Saturday Daily Telegraph.