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Sara Sheridan is a British writer born in 1968. Her works span across historical novels, children's literature, and adult fiction. Sheridan is known for her rich imagination and deep understanding of history, often blending elements of mystery and adventure in her novels.

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“When you think about the period in which Agatha Christie's crime novels were written, they are actually quite edgy for the time.”

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“You spill a lot of beans in historical fiction. Crime fiction is about spilling no beans at all. You spill the least beans you possibly can. So because I had already written historical fiction before I was really good at the spilling beans section, but the new skill I had to learn when I was writing Brighton Belle was difficult. I had to avoid the equivalent of shouting, "this character's a murderer! Look who did it!.”

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“The best historical stories capture the modern imagination because they are, in many senses, still current - part of a continuum.”

Stories Imagination Fiction Historical Continuum Sara Sheridan

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“I am a storyteller, not a historian, and it's my ambition to create something compelling - something unputdownable and riveting - that chimes with the real history but is, in fact, fiction.”

Reality Fiction History Storyteller Sara Sheridan Unputdownable

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“I'm a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events.”

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“Historical fiction of course is particularly research-heavy. The details of everyday life are there to trip you up. Things that we take for granted, indeed, hardly think about, can lead to tremendous mistakes.”

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“A book is a story, even if it's non-fiction, and once I've read it, I have the story with me inside my head always.”

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Born: 1968
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