Theresa Breslin

“In order to deliver the emotional truth in the story, you have to include some of the literal truth.”

“When I was young, I read everything I could lay my hands on, but the Scots in my storybooks spent their time fighting glorious battles, rowing across lochs, or escaping over moors of purple...”

“What I try to do - and I think this is the former librarian in me - is to get primary source material.”