by Clare Flynn | Aug 5, 2014
My first job after university was in the civil service, where I managed the financial affairs of mental patients under the Court of Protection. As a newbie, my caseload was entirely made up of war pensioners – most of them survivors of World War 1. These were...
by Clare Flynn | Apr 16, 2012
I’ve just used something that actually happened to me in my novel Kurinji Flowers. About five years ago (2007), I went to India for the first time and was driven at night from the airport at Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu to my destination, a yoga retreat near...
by Clare Flynn | Apr 5, 2012
A few days ago I wrote a blog piece about stealing with glee – and how I’d stolen a little descriptive phrase for the colour and character of the sea in and around Eastbourne from my friend Annette Gampel, nee Warburton – with her permission –...
