36 Quotes About Sara-sheridan

Vesta was so good with paperwork – you could hand her a file of drab, seemingly dull information and she’d construct a story from it worthy of a novel.


The best historical stories capture the modern imagination because they are, in many senses, still current - part of a continuum.

A chap’s impending death has a way of focusing the mind.


This investigation felt difficult, like driving in fog.


Mirabelle was always an enigma, and he had the sense that if he pushed her, she’d bolt.

The good thing about the aristocracy – German or English – was that they were easily traced, Mirabelle thought.

Covert operations relied on the unguarded slip, the unconscious choosing of one word over another.

Whereas Mirabelle is tall, thin and sad, Vesta is physically and emotionally her opposite.

Food in wartime Britain, she had to admit, was hardly inspiring.