Sara Sheridan

“In the 1950s at least less was expected of women. Now we're supposed to build a career, build a home, be the…

— Sara Sheridan

“I have no problem in moving a date one way or another or coming up with a subplot that gets my characters…

— Sara Sheridan

There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or…

— Sara Sheridan

“I wondered if that was what I was doing myself – caring so much about something that was so long gone that…

— Sara Sheridan

“He didn’t look as if he’d been through a whirlwind exactly but he’d certainly endured a stiff breeze.”

— Sara Sheridan

“On Twitter, people who had read my book followed me and I could see what else they were reading, why they'd liked…

— Sara Sheridan

“All those kisses. There must have been a thousand. They engulfed me like some kind of all consuming dream where I became…

— Sara Sheridan

“I'm a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events.”

— Sara Sheridan

“You don’t know what the hell you look like when you’re just some little schoolgirl.”

— Sara Sheridan

Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us.

— Sara Sheridan

“Once they have dedicated themselves to a cause, women will fight to the end for it.”

— Sara Sheridan

At the end of the day, that's what a family is - a group of different people who accept each other.

— Sara Sheridan

“It seemed to me that these months of watching and listening, second-guessing words and phrases, seeking so much that was new, had…

— Sara Sheridan

“They should be taking bonuses from bankers, not library books from schoolchildren. What kind of society are we building?”

— Sara Sheridan

“Sometimes you don’t even have to have sex at all, and for that kind of sicko, you charge double.”

— Sara Sheridan

“Only a man with nothing to hide could make that kind of racket.”

— Sara Sheridan

“Mirabelle? Mirabelle Bevan? Well, I’ll be blowed!” Mirabelle started, almost spilling her drink. It took her a moment to realize who the…

— Sara Sheridan

“Muscat is like a mind-altering drug. A stroll in its streets is like getting drunk for the first time”

— Sara Sheridan

“If the universe was scientific and just left to itself, then we’d have statistical probabilities to rely on. But once people are…

— Sara Sheridan

“Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields…

— Sara Sheridan

“Our archives are treasure troves - a testament to many lives lived and the complexity of the way we move forward. They…

— Sara Sheridan

I am incredibly jammy. I really am.

— 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…

— Sara Sheridan

“You became the sum total of where you lived, where you shopped, which church you went to, how many kids you had…

— Sara Sheridan

“You couldn’t predict what was going to happen for one simple reason: people.”

— Sara Sheridan