Sara Sheridan Quotes

If there’s one shade a woman of colour can’t wear it’s got to be the one everyone expects, hasn’t it?

She picked up the stout and took a sip. It slid down her throat like silk.

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

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.

You've got to make an effort to get the details right, because even through someone picks it up and knows it's a novel, they know someone's made it up and they know it's not real, if you make a small mistake they will cease to imaginatively engage with the story.