by Clare Flynn | Feb 14, 2016
In honour of Valentine’s Day I thought it would be fun to share some extracts of first meetings from my novels, thinking of the words of Dostoyevsky – “We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight,...
by Clare Flynn | Feb 9, 2016
Finding appropriate and memorable names for characters in my novels is a fun challenge. My favourite method – as I write historical fiction – is to have a wander round a graveyard. I’ve always had a weird fascination with cemeteries. I haunted Père Lachaise when I...