Claire was born near Bristol at the tail end of the seventies, on the almost worst day of the year to have a birthday, New Year’s Eve. 

Growing up by the coast until she was sixteen has given Claire a love of windswept cliffs and wide-open vistas of the sea, until one realises the coast she’s familiar with is in Weston-Super-Mare. 

Nonetheless, Claire overcame this minor burden to establish a love of nature and the outdoors that she’s sustained her whole life and pops up now and again in her writing. She now lives in landlocked Cambridgeshire with her husband, two children, and two cats, and still pines for the sight of muddy seawater and the smell of rotting seaweed. 

Claire holds no real writing qualifications other than an avid love of reading and a compulsive craving to write. She rises before her family so she can mutter incoherently to herself for two hours while agonising over a single paragraph without them having to feel embarrassed on her behalf. 

She devours books like the parched chug water and isn’t fussy about genre, loving historical romance, murder mystery, the classics, non-fiction, fantasy, self-help, sci-fi, memoir and women’s fiction. Her favourite series will always be Shardlake, by CJ Samson, and the ever-quirky mirror image of earth in the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett. 

She is a full-time fantasist, mother, author, editor, choreographer and dance teacher, and advocate of neurodiversity, along with squeezing in a few days of real work for a charity. When she’s not writing, she can be found reading, dancing, planning dance classes, sleeping, talking to her cats, and trying to make sense of the modern world of social media. 

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