Clare Harvey is the acclaimed author of four novels. Her first book, The Gunner Girl, won both the Exeter Novel Prize and the Joan Hessayon Award for debut fiction.
Clare’s latest Novel, The Escape, was published in 2019.
Her fifth novel, set in wartime Mauritius, is awaiting publication, and she’s currently working on her sixth.
Clare was born in North Devon. Her family moved several times whilst she was growing up, and she spent part of her childhood living in Mauritius.
After finishing school, Clare took a diploma in fine art at Plymouth University, followed by a degree in Law at the University of Leicester. She also has postgraduate qualifications in print journalism and English tuition, and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Nottingham.
As the ‘trailing spouse’ of a serving soldier in the British Army, Clare has lived all over the world. She worked in journalism, public relations and English tuition, before finally realising her secret dream of becoming a writer.
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http://www.creativewritingmatters.co.uk/blog/clare-harvey-2014-exeter-novel-prize-winner
“I started writing The Gunner Girl when I discovered that my mother-in-law had been a teenage soldier in the Second World War. This sowed the seeds for a deep and lasting curiosity into the way wartime changed young women’s lives and the incredible resilience they demonstrated in the face of danger. There are so many stories, still waiting to be told…”
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http://www.historiamag.com/the-remarkable-women-of-ww2/
“I love stories that have a strong sense of place. I was still an army wife when I wrote The Gunner Girl, and living on an army barracks, so the sights and sounds of military life readily suffused into the pages of the book. When I started to set stories further afield I felt I had to go and visit the locations. My optical research trips have taken me to Poland, Germany, France, and – for my latest book – Mauritius.”
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