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Hearts of Glass
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Welcome to the website of Clare Flynn, award-winning and bestselling author of sixteen historical novels.

A Greater World was Clare’s debut novel  2014. In the years since it was released, Clare has written and published award-winning historical novels taking place across the world, including four books in her hugely popular Penang Series. She also has books available in German and French translation.

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Interview with author Wayne Turmel

Interview with author Wayne Turmel

I'm delighted to welcome Wayne Turmel onto the blog today. Wayne noticed my latest novel The Chalky Sea was partly set in Canada and features a Canadian main character so offered to host me on his blog and I decided to return the compliment. Where do you live, Wayne,...

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Interrogating my characters

Interrogating my characters

I published my latest novel, The Chalky Sea, this month and have promised my readers to write a sequel. As I sat down to work on the second book I found I was struggling to re-connect with my characters. One of them was a secondary character in The Chalky Sea but...

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Remembering the war after seventy years

Remembering the war after seventy years

Back in 2010, the anniversary of the Blitz, I recorded my elderly mother on video talking about her memories of wartime. Mum had dementia but was still relatively lucid then – she died in early 2016, by which time she was lost deep in a fog. Publishing my new book The...

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