Clare Clark

Left to her own devices, CLARE CLARK lives in a world full of swords, stays and secrets. She's studied the English civil wars for decades and is continually fascinated by the fact that in the mid seventeenth century, our ancestors tore the kingdom apart. Whole families and communities were divided and dislocated for a radical idea that severed the head of God’s anointed monarch and promised to redefine the relationship between power and people. How a society can at any time hope to emerge from divisions and trauma is a recurring theme.

When the real world comes crashing in, she's an ex-journalist and current lawyer with plenty of published works on the legal industry and its nuances under her belt. She lives just outside London, is slowly renovating a seventeenth century home and has three young children.