Sara Sheridan Quotes
I'm drawn to the 1950s for lots of reasons - everything from the fashion to the increasing sense of freedom and modernity that builds throughout the decade.
During the war some of the country’s sharpest minds had looked as if they had been dragged through a hedge backwards.
As a historical novelist, there is very little I like more than spending time sorting through boxes of old letters, diaries, maps, trinkets, and baubles.
She picked up the stout and took a sip. It slid down her throat like silk.
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.
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 don't live in a society that has genuine equality, and every woman we know has experienced that.