The chance discovery that her mother-in-law served in the army during the Second World War sparked Clare’s debut novel, THE GUNNER GIRL,
which won both the Exeter Novel Prize and the Joan Hessayon Award for new fiction. This set in train a fascination with women’s experiences
in wartime which Clare has developed through both her fiction and academic research.
Her latest novel, THE ESCAPE, is published by Simon & Schuster.
Clare has an MA in creative writing from the University of Nottingham and is currently engaged in doctoral practice research in experimental
writing and publishing, with a chapter in an academic collection, Haunting Lives, due for publication by Bloomsbury in 2025.
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Latest book: THE ESCAPE [Simon & Schuster UK]
One winter morning in Germany in early 1945, Detta passes a group of exhausted British prisoners of war who are being force-marched westwards. One man catches her eye and she cannot forget him. The following day she receives an urgent message to contact the local priest: he needs her help.
Miranda is a photography student in Berlin in 1989 as the Wall falls. Trapped in an abusive relationship, her one hope for escape is an old postcard of the village her grandmother, Detta, was born in. As Miranda flees through the rubble of the Berlin wall and into the East, she begins to suspect she’s being followed by the Stasi…
Two very different timelines; two women who share a history and a dark secret. Can they save each other now the time has come to reveal it?
The chance discovery that her mother-in-law served in the army during the Second World War sparked Clare’s debut novel, THE GUNNER GIRL,
which won both the Exeter Novel Prize and the Joan Hessayon Award for new fiction. This set in train a fascination with women’s experiences
in wartime which Clare has developed through both her fiction and academic research.
Her latest novel, THE ESCAPE, is published by Simon & Schuster.
Clare has an MA in creative writing from the University of Nottingham and is currently engaged in doctoral practice research in experimental
writing and publishing, with a chapter in an academic collection, Haunting Lives, due for publication by Bloomsbury in 2025.
One winter morning in Germany in early 1945, Detta passes a group of exhausted British prisoners of war who are being force-marched westwards. One man catches her eye and she cannot forget him. The following day she receives an urgent message to contact the local priest: he needs her help.