Quotes by Sara Sheridan

About Sara Sheridan:

Sara Sheridan is a Scottish writer who works in a variety of genres, though predominately in historical fiction. She is the creator of the Mirabelle Bevan mysteries.
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A chap wouldn’t hole up in Occupied France just to get away from his wife, Vesta.

Sara Sheridan

Why, that means you’re just a … busybody. You could be anyone. You could be a journalist.’


Sara Sheridan

Can I fetch you something, madam? A cup of tea?’ In the old days she’d have been ‘miss’ and he’d have offered her a cocktail.

Sara Sheridan

The good thing about the aristocracy – German or English – was that they were easily traced, Mirabelle thought.

Sara Sheridan

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

Sara Sheridan

He often came back ‘all thinky’ from work.

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

He tasted of whisky and his skin was rough where he hadn’t shaved, but Mirabelle kissed him back.

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Didn’t young people care what the generation before them had achieved? And if not, why had everyone gone through those grim difficult wartime years?

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It was nearly ten years since the peace though her memories of the war still felt fresh.

Sara Sheridan

Most fellas like the races, though, Miss. It’s only human nature

Sara Sheridan

Mirabelle always ate her lunch on Brighton beach if the weather was in any way passable, but out of sheer principle she never paid tuppence for a chair. We did not win the war to have to pay to sit down, she frequently found herself thinking.

Sara Sheridan

Covert operations relied on the unguarded slip, the unconscious choosing of one word over another.

Sara Sheridan

This investigation felt difficult, like driving in fog.


Sara Sheridan

Mirabelle was always an enigma, and he had the sense that if he pushed her, she’d bolt.

Sara Sheridan

Parisians were not easy to engage in conversation. Perhaps that was why the Resistance had been so successful.

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.


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It was clearly a lot more difficult in the field than in the office, where you could keep your distance and maintain a calculated composure. Being faced with real people was a far tougher call on one’s judgement.

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The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout.

Sara Sheridan

Some women will do anything for a glass of champagne and a safe bed.

Sara Sheridan

My father could talk about the Romany way of life and its culture. He could talk about freedom and the Scottish spirit. But that was all he could talk about. I was desperate for someone to talk to but there was just nobody there.

Sara Sheridan

Author Bio

  • NameSara Sheridan
  • DescriptionScottish novelist
  • BornJune 7, 1968
  • ProfessionNovelist