“As a reader you recognise that feeling when you're lost in a book? You know the one - when whatever's going on around you seems less real than what you're reading and all you want to do is keep going deeper into the story whether it's about being halfway up a mountain in Brazil in 1823 of in love with a man you aren't sure you can trust or fighting a war in the last human outpost, somewhere beyond the moon. Well, if you're writing that book it's real for you too.”
“As a reader you recognise that feeling when you're lost in a book? You know the one - when whatever's going on around you seems less real than what you're reading and all you want to do is keep going deeper into the story whether it's about being halfway up a mountain in Brazil in 1823 of in love with a man you aren't sure you can trust or fighting a war in the last human outpost, somewhere beyond the moon. Well, if you're writing that book it's real for you too.”
Sara Sheridan
“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.”
Sara Sheridan“The best historical stories capture the modern imagination because they are, in many senses, still current - part of a continuum.”
Sara Sheridan“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!.”
Sara Sheridan“I am a storyteller, not a historian, and it's my ambition to create something compelling - something unputdownable and riveting - that chimes with the real history but is, in fact, fiction.”
Sara Sheridan“We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press.”
Sara Sheridan“I've always had a keen sense of history. My father was an antiques dealer and he used to bring home boxes full of treasures, and each item always had a tale attached.”
Sara Sheridan“Mirabelle was always an enigma, and he had the sense that if he pushed her, she’d bolt.”
Sara Sheridan, British Bulldog“Covert operations relied on the unguarded slip, the unconscious choosing of one word over another.”
Sara Sheridan, British Bulldog“Reticence was clearly a national characteristic, even if the other person spoke French.”
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