by Claire | Jul 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
Gold Digger by Gillian Godden is out now! Feisty, Blonde and strong willed. fun loving Julie Gold is a survivor from the slums of Liverpool. Raised by an alcoholic mother and stepfather, the only love she has ever known is for her young sister. Julie has done...
by Claire | Jul 17, 2021 | Uncategorized
The seaside settings that inspire my Bluebell Cliff series I’m a Dorset girl. I was born in Bournemouth, as was my mum, and true locals are quite a rare species apparently. For twenty-five years my mum and stepdad owned The Marlborough, a seaside hotel in Boscombe....
by Claire | Jul 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
(or, how not to be a writer during a global pandemic!!) I wrote most of Just For The Summer during the autumn of 2020, which, as I’m sure no-one needs reminding, was bang in the middle of a global pandemic. It really wasn’t meant to be that way! Turn the clock back...
by Claire | Jul 13, 2021 | Uncategorized
Although I have always loved the gangland thriller genre it had never occurred to me to write one myself until one day a chance conversation with my brother brought me the opportunity to do so. We had been having a conversation about football and after a while the...
by Claire | Jul 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
Wartime blues for the Harpers Girls is the latest in the Welcome to Harpers series. It carries on from Harpers Heroes and tells the tale of the girls from Harpers store dealing with the various problems they encounter in life. Maggie is sent home desperately ill...
by Claire | Jul 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
It’s a funny thing, writing a book. I first had the idea for what eventually became In Just one Day about ten years ago. In fact, it was my first ever idea for a fiction book. I’d written books about wine (my specialist subject!) but writing things you know is much...
