I Love You, Mr Demille

A silent movie writer finds her voice in this new story by Sara Sheridan.

Inspired by the true story of Lorna Moon and her close friendship with darling of the silver screen Mary Pickford.

Sara Sheridan is a writer and activist who is interested in diverse readings of history. She has written more than 20 books. Truth or Dare, her first novel won the Scottish Library Award. On Starlit Seas, was shortlisted for the Wilbur Smith Prize. In 2022, The Fair Botanists was Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year and was also a season 7 pick for The Queen’s Reading Room. The Secrets of Blythswood Square was longlisted for The Saltire Award in 2024. Val McDermid said she was ’the natural heir of Robert Louis Stevenson’ after reading latest historical novel, The Jewel Keepers. An occasional journalist, Sara has reported for BBC Radio 4's From Our Own Correspondent and on ‘being a lady’ for Women’s Hour. Sara has written 3 radio plays, including Robert Burns: His Psychotherapy and Cure, which was voiced by Elaine C Smith. In 2019 Sara re-mapped Scotland according to women’s history for Historic Environment Scotland – the resulting book, Where are the Women, was one of the David Hume Institute’s Books of the year 2019. In it, she imagined several monuments to Scotland’s accused witches alongside commemorating over 1250, mostly-forgotten Scottish women.