Everyone was important during the war. Everyone. We worked together and we won.

— Sara Sheridan

Food in wartime Britain, she had to admit, was hardly inspiring.

— Sara Sheridan

For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists.

— Sara Sheridan

For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending both what's available and who gets to read it.

— Sara Sheridan

For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they're best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish - we're famous for travelling in search of adventure.

— Sara Sheridan

Google Maps are one thing, but there's no substitute for pounding the beat and I spent quite a bit of time figuring out how to break into the back of the houses on Belgrade Place. Once I even for followed by a suspicious householder - I'd been hanging around staring at the exterior of his flat for too long.

— Sara Sheridan

Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job.

— Sara Sheridan

Having instant feedback on Twitter to research material I'm considering is an enormous help.

— Sara Sheridan

He cannot think. He can scarcely breathe. But he has no desire to either, he simply wants to keep kissing her.

— Sara Sheridan

He finds himself bored by the shenanigans of highly spirited young men. Their concerns reside somewhere between balder and dash.

— Sara Sheridan