by Clare Flynn | May 11, 2022
On Location in Australia | A Greater World Australia Sisters at War My first novel A Greater World is set in the beautiful Blue Mountains of Australia. As it’s only about 70 miles from Sydney you can visit on a day trip. On my first visit to Australia in 1995 I stayed...
by Clare Flynn | Dec 11, 2020
My first novel, A Greater World, begins in a place I have never actually visited. At least not the exact location, although I do know the surrounding area from my time living in the North East of England. The book originally opened with Elizabeth Morton, the main...
by Clare Flynn | Jan 10, 2019
To mark the publication today of the new digital edition of A Greater World by Canelo, here’s an interview with the main character, Elizabeth Morton.First of all, Elizabeth, can you give us a brief introduction to yourself – who are you and where are you...
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 | Dec 17, 2014
One of the essentials of writing historical fiction is that you get your background details right. What I hadn’t realised when I started on this journey was that I would have to do so much research around modes of transport. I’d never shown the remotest...
