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 | Jan 25, 2016
Location is always a vital part of my novels. I think of the setting as another character in the books. My work in progress, tentatively titled The Green Ribbons is set in a small village in Berkshire at the turn of the twentieth century. Sometimes I stick with real...