Sheila started work at fifteen as a presser in Hepworths, a tailoring factory. She married at eighteen and had three daughters; Dawn, Janine and Diane and a younger son, Michael. Recently divorced, she now has eight grandchildren, and every Saturday and Sunday can be found at a football match for the Darlington Academy under thirteens and the Northern League. Sheila has lived in Houghton-le-Spring near Sunderland for thirty years.
Quigley presses the fear button right from the start and keeps the tension cranked up high right up until the explosive climax * Northern Echo * Her prose is taut and her plots tight * Daily Mirror * The grandmother from Sunderland continues to astonish with her gritty and convincing crime stories * Peterborough Evening Telegraph * It's the stunning dichotomy of a normal, working-class, everyday cast and the very abnormal acts of terrifying evil that give Quigley's novels such a chilling edge of reality - and that's the scariest things of all * Daily Record *