About Clara
Nine years on a lifeboat crew gave me every plot I need.
Before the books I taught English at a secondary school in Falmouth and volunteered as lifeboat crew at weekends. The pager going off during Sunday lunch is where Mags Penrose began. I live on the Roseland peninsula with a husband, a terrier and too many tide tables.
A writing life, briefly
- Book four
The Low Water Ledger · Halyard Press
Mags investigates a missing harbour treasurer and the money that went with him.
- Before
Lifeboat crew volunteer · Falmouth station
Nine years of shouts, drills and the occasional rescued kayaker, all quietly borrowed for fiction.
- Before that
English teacher · Secondary school, Falmouth
Twelve years of marking essays, which is still the best training for editing your own.