The author

Sara Sheridan is fascinated by history – particularly the period from 1820 to the 1950s. She enjoys working in different media and genres, and writes for both adults and children. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, she lives in Edinburgh with her family. Sara’s first novel Truth or Dare was nominated for a Saltire Prize and was included in the Top 100 Books in the Scottish Libraries Award: her other novels are Ma Polinski’s Pockets, The Pleasure Express, The Blessed and the Damned, The Secret Mandarin, Secret of the Sands and Brighton Belle. Sara sits on the Scottish committee of the Society of Authors and on the board of the writers’ collective, 26. She guest blogs regularly (for the Guardian and the London Review of Books) and has reported from Tallin, Estonia, and Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, for BBC Radio 4’s From Our Own Correspondent. She tweets about her writing life as @sarasheridan and about the Mirabelle Bevan mysteries as @mirabellebevan, and has a Facebook page at sarasheridanwriter.