by Clare Flynn | Dec 19, 2019
This morning I was enjoying reading today’s story in the Discovering Diamonds December Story from a Song series If you haven’t been reading these – a new story inspired by a song every day until the New Year – then do have a look. At the end of each story you’ll find...
by Clare Flynn | Nov 23, 2019
Yesterday I posted on Facebook about the horrible fire at the Claremont Hotel on the seafront here in Eastbourne. You can see what’s left of it this morning from this image – courtesy of East Sussex Fire and Rescue. My post prompted a question from one of...
by Clare Flynn | Jul 12, 2019
While I was ending the third month of my four-month Round the World voyage, one of my old friends, Peter, asked me the following question on Facebook. “Clare, several of your novels feature long ocean voyages (in very different times) – having circumnavigated...
by Clare Flynn | Feb 16, 2019
It only recently occurred to me that I have at least one scene involving a voyage by sea in every single one of the nine books I’ve written. As I write this post I am getting ready for my own major sea voyage – a round-the-world cruise for four months. This has to be...
by Clare Flynn | Mar 28, 2018
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...
