The Thames Torso murders almost fell into my lap. After deciding to use a real historical crime as the focus for the book, I went to Google and searched for unsolved murders in Victorian London, and they basically popped out… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
I'm not a natural researcher, and I don't get bogged down in it, but I think if you get it right in the first half, people will forgive you, and then you can move on with the story. — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
“For me, life has always been the storm. The storm and watching from the window for the thing that could stop it, even if… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
My first six books were horror, I think because when I was young I loved Stephen King. John Wyndham, Daphne Du Maurier, and it's… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
The unreliable narrator is an odd concept. The way I see it, we're all unreliable narrators of our lives who usually have absolute trust… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
“Something is building, bubbling in my stomach, flaring into white heat, and I don't know if it will explode out of me in anxiety… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
I'm a lot less travelled as an adult than I was as a child, but I think living in far flung places gives you… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
Never trust a narrator whose opening gambit is to insist he's not mad. — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
“The past is as ephemeral as the future—it’s all perspective and smoke and mirrors.” — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
The only rule I have in how I let characters tell stories is that they must always tell the reader their version of the… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
We all love a bit of 'true love conquers all,' and when I started on 'Poison,' 'Charm' and 'Beauty,' that was one rule of… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
“Sometimes there are just too many words filling up space and not enough emptiness left for thinking. I keep a little emptiness inside for… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
Maybe even at six or seven, I knew that, sweet as they were on the surface, all fairy tales needed a feminist shake up. — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
