36 Quotes About Sara-sheridan

She picked up the stout and took a sip. It slid down her throat like silk.

Afternoon drinkers shifted in the gloom as if they sensed new blood.

If there’s one shade a woman of colour can’t wear it’s got to be the one everyone expects, hasn’t it?

You've got to make an effort to get the details right, because even through someone picks it up and knows it's a novel, they know someone's made it up and they know it's not real, if you make a small mistake they will cease to imaginatively engage with the story.

Can I fetch you something, madam? A cup of tea?’In the old days she’d have been ‘miss’ and he’d have offered her a cocktail.

She tried to focus on the element of riddle or at least puzzle contained in the letter and ignore the sense of doom that was sweeping through her like clouds rolling to the shore over open water.


People responded to body language without even thinking. It was important to get it absolutely right.

You spill a lot of beans in historical fiction. Crime fiction is about spilling no beans at all. You spill the least beans you possibly can. So because I had already written historical fiction before I was really good at the spilling beans section, but the new skill I had to learn when I was writing Brighton Belle was difficult. I had to avoid the equivalent of shouting, "this character's a murderer! Look who did it!.

He tasted of whisky and his skin was rough where he hadn’t shaved, but Mirabelle kissed him back.