by Clare Flynn | May 3, 2013
I need to say upfront that the photo on the left of the famous (men only) bar of the High Range Club in Munnar was not taken by me but plucked from the interweb. Read on to find out why. I’ve been dying to visit this famous bastion of tea planters as a lot of...
by Clare Flynn | May 1, 2013
Last night was like trying to sleep on a bed of nails – strange as I went straight off the night before. My only diversion during the small hours was a super bright firefly that had followed me into the room and stood guard by the bedpost twinkling at me all...
by Clare Flynn | Apr 29, 2013
Well I’ve made it – with a few misadventures on the way – all of which have righted themselves (forgetting my adaptor – cause of major anxiety as its loss would put the blocks on my working – but they’ve found me one), forgetting my iphone lead (turns out it was in my...
by Clare Flynn | Mar 26, 2013
My characters in Kurinji Flowers stay for a brief honeymoon at the Grand Hotel in Eastbourne – in the winter of 1936. As I happened to be in Eastbourne this weekend to meeet up with old schoolfriends I asked the hotel if I could have a look around and was...
by Clare Flynn | Dec 3, 2012
Having completed my revisions to A Greater World and sent it back to my agent (a reworking of the way the protagonists meet) after a somewhat hesitant start, I’ve now begun a radical rewrite of Kurinji Flowers. Today my characters went to the movies at the...
by Clare Flynn | Apr 26, 2012
I was writing today about the Angels’ Trumpet flowers that I saw everywhere around Munnar and Periyar. Ginny my character was painting them and I thought I’d better check I’d got the name right. Turns out they’re highly toxic… so you...
