“ In the middle section of the book Mirabelle breaks into not one, but two houses near Belgravia Books. I had fun scoping these out - checking which windows looked least secure and figuring out how to s… 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
“ 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
“ 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. Sara Sheridan
“ Jack had been the love of her life and he was gone. It seemed now that there had never been bad times, though she knew that wasn’t true. Sara Sheridan
“ Mirabelle sat down, dropping into the cushions like a ball being caught in a large leather glove. Sara Sheridan
“ When she first moved to Brighton, the flat on the Lawns had felt luxurious and it had seemed as if she was settling down, sleeping in the same bed every night, the darkness uninterrupted by any hint o… Sara Sheridan
