Quotes by Sara Sheridan

People are so different in wartime. No one gets to be ordinary. Not really.

I wondered if that was what I was doing myself – caring so much about something that was so long gone that I was only propping it up.

Escapers were the cream of the crop.

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

Archive material is a fabulous starting point - individual documents are like signposted roads, heading to a variety of intriguing possibilities.

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

Social and cultural history is often comprised of whatever diaries and letters remain and that is down to chance and wide open to interpretation.

Mirabelle sat down, dropping into the cushions like a ball being caught in a large leather glove.


Reticence was clearly a national characteristic, even if the other person spoke French.

We dont live in a society that has genuine equality, and every woman we know has experienced that.

Living in Edinburgh, I consider myself particularly lucky - we have the biggest book festival in the world, a plethora of fascinating libraries and museums, and some of the greatest architecture in Europe.

I have an ambivalent relationship with Margaret Thatcher. She came to power in May 1979 - a month before my 11th birthday. I was far too young to have developed a great deal of political awareness. I remember it, though - my mother excited at the dinner table because Britain had its first female prime minister.

Lets be clear - for people like me, who are obsessed with story and for whom words are their medium, writing is the best job possible. I work hard, but I earn more than the national average wage while I play with my imagination, and for me, thats a dream.