I took up writing when I retired from a ‘proper’ job and decided I didn’t want to sit around all day doing nothing. I always loved reading and writing and started off with sh...

I worked for many years as an academic and later in the NHS as a therapist. Initially I wrote academic papers before branching out into fiction writing. I joined my local writing g...

Claire Dyer’s novels are published by Quercus, The Dome Press, Matador and Pegasus. Her latest novel is ‘What We Thought We Knew’. She has also had four poetry collections pu...