Sierra Ripoche
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Sierra McGrath-Ripoche is a fictional character from Patrick McGrath's novels. She was introduced in 1990 in the Psychological fiction novel Spider as Sierra and became an omnipresent character in the works of the author. Patrick McGrath admitted in 1992 that this running story was created to make live his daughter-like character.[1]
Sierra was first introduced in Spider as "a raw diamond" who lived the calm city of Beignet as a server in a restaurant. It appears quickly that her beauty, through "the reddening color" of her hair and the "intensity of her blue eyes", and her interpersonal skills hide mysteries which are revealed as one goes along the novels. The character becomes major in Martha Peake: A novel of the Revolution where her secrets are revealed.