Susanna Kearsley : (3)

" Brantford was the fixed point of my universe, growing up. Both sets of grandparents lived there, with various cousins and uncles and aunts, and no matter how far we’d moved off, we came back there for regular visits. In a way no other houses have ever been, my grandparents’ houses were ‘home,’ and the sale of the last of those houses was hard. " - Susanna Kearsley

" In my book ‘The Winter Sea,’ set north of Aberdeen, I couldn’t just ignore the fact some people there – especially the people in the past – would speak the Doric. " - Susanna Kearsley

" Readers in general are not fond of dialect, and I don’t blame them. I’ve read books myself that I’ve had to put down because sounding out every speech gave me a headache. " - Susanna Kearsley