“ 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… Sara Sheridan
“ The best historical stories capture the modern imagination because they are, in many senses, still current - part of a continuum. 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
“ We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press. 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
“ 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… Sara Sheridan
“ Reticence was clearly a national characteristic, even if the other person spoke French. Sara Sheridan
“ 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. Sara Sheridan
“ If there’s one shade a woman of colour can’t wear it’s got to be the one everyone expects, hasn’t it? Sara Sheridan
“ Parisians were not easy to engage in conversation. Perhaps that was why the Resistance had been so successful. Sara Sheridan
“ Mirabelle was always an enigma, and he had the sense that if he pushed her, she’d bolt. Sara Sheridan
“ The good thing about the aristocracy – German or English – was that they were easily traced, Mirabelle thought. Sara Sheridan
“ Covert operations relied on the unguarded slip, the unconscious choosing of one word over another. Sara Sheridan
“ Nothing is long ago in an archive, my dear. In the records we treat the dead as same as the living. that’s the whole point of keeping papers. It doesn’t matter if it’s a hundred years or only a few we… Sara Sheridan
