by Claire | Feb 16, 2026 | Uncategorized
Every day I go out for a run and every day I encounter at least one flock of rooks. They see me coming and kick up a particular noise and I always wonder if they make the same noise for every human, or whether they’ve got a particular sound that means “here comes that...
by Claire | Feb 12, 2026 | Uncategorized
Happy New Year! I love even years. Maybe that’s because I was born in one but 2026 is all even numbers so I think it’s going to be the best one yet Celebrating the release of a new book is a great way to start. A Wedding in Provence is coming out on the...
by Claire | Feb 10, 2026 | Uncategorized
Ice and a Slice was the novel where I found my author voice. I’d never really known what that meant until I wrote this book. This was partly because for so many years I wrote short stories for magazines which meant I was writing to a house style. I’d learned to adapt...
by Claire | Feb 10, 2026 | Uncategorized
When Janet fibs to her highbrow friend, Christobel, that she belongs to a book group, Viv, Libby and Zelda are keen to form one. Why not, when they all love reading? Libby is particularly enthusiastic. It will be great to discuss books over a glass of wine or two,...
by Claire | Jan 27, 2026 | Uncategorized
When I first started writing The Girl with Nowhere to Go, Skye was a minor character, a sixteen-year-old girl on the edges of Bec and Anna’s lives. Bec and Anna, both carrying grief from their pasts, were the focus, while Skye was simply someone they tried to help....
