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Claire

Claire is employed in the homeless sector and provides advice and guidance to 16-25 year olds. She's currently studying for an MA in Novel Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University, and before that studied Creative Writing at the University of Glamorgan. Her favourite contemporary novels are Room by Emma Donoghue, M.J. Hyland's Carry Me Down, and The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing. Claire's poetry, fiction and reviews have previously been published in university anthologies, Sentinel Literary Quarterly, Buzz Magazine Cardiff, as well as local newspapers. She will be Resident Writer in new experimental website, www.somethingeveryday.co.uk, during September of this year.

The Slap

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I read this novel because I wanted to know what all the fuss was about. Snappy tag-lines appeared in review supplements the world over, and I really needed to know just what was so (as judge at Commonwealth Writer’s Prize, Nicholas Hasluck, put it) ‘controversial’ and ‘daring’ about it. The […]

Sixteen Shades of Crazy

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I was in the audience when an extract from the first chapter of Sixteen Shades of Crazy was read at the Green Man Festival. As a fan of Rachel Trezise’s writing, I’d waited for its release with curiosity. Her debut novel, In and Out of the Goldfish Bowl, was a triumph over […]