Memories of Living in Paris
Clare Flynn shares memories of living in Paris in the late 80s/90s and how she is drawing on these to inform her work in progress.
Finding Inspiration from Location – in Kenya
Nine times out of ten when it comes to writing a new book my start point is geographic location. It might be a particular country, or geographic area – or it might be a building or a landscape where a story comes to me. This time with my current work-in-progress I am...
My hunch about wartime Beachy Head is vindicated!
About three years ago, when I was writing The Chalky Sea, I read as much as possible about the impact of the Second World War here in my home town of Eastbourne. I wanted my main character, Gwen Collingwood, a childless married woman whose husband has gone to war, to...
Remembering the civilian dead in Eastbourne
One of my novels, The Chalky Sea, is set here in Eastbourne during the Second World War. This is a book that I never planned to write – until two years ago, when I moved back to the town where I spent my teens and discovered something I’d never known then – that...