In conversation with... Sara Sheridan
Hello Sara! First of all, I would like to congratulate you on the publication of your latest novel, Brighton Belle . Can you tell us what it is about? A: Thank you! Brighton Belle is the story of an ex-Secret Service agent, Mirabelle Bevan. At the end of the war Mirabelle feels her useful life is over – her skills are no longer required. Her boyfriend is dead and she moves down to Brighton to retire. Then she gets a job working for a debt collection agency run by the charismatic Big Ben McGuigan and before she knows it she finds her skills are useful because a mysterious case comes in…. Brighton Belle is set in Brighton in 1951. Why did you choose this particular time and place and how much research did you have to carry out? A: The book had its genesis in a boozy lunc h with my parents. My father was brought up in Brighton and London during the 1950s and he has some great stories of what that was like. It prompted me to look at setting a story there – I had a couple of months on my ...