Claire Smith

I was born in Sale, South Manchester, England in October 1968.  I still live in Sale and am now married with two grown up boys and two crazy dogs called Mac (after Ewan McGregor) and Monty (after General Sir Bernard Montgomery or Monty Python depending om who you ask!) We used to have a beautiful big black dog called Danny (named after Daniel Craig) and four cats, Meg (Ryan), Bruce (Willis), Lara (Croft), and Lulu (? Just Lulu) all long since departed.

 

Since childhood I have always loved to read and soon graduated from The Famous Five, through Swallows and Amazons to the likes of Jacqueline Suzanne, Harold Robbins and Jackie Collins in my teens, that was of course always assuming my Mum never found them!  I did have to perfect the art of reading one book inside the cover of another!  In my twenties I discovered such fantastic writers as Tom Clancy, Frederick Forsyth, Clive Cussler, Wilbur Smith and Robert Ludlum to name but a few.  However, it was not one of these greats who inspired me to write.  It was a series of dreadful books by several someone’s I can't remember which prompted me to make real the notion "I could do better than this..."

 

So "No More Butterflies", my first novel, began.  It took several years to write, with children, home life, husband and job all getting in the way at some point or other but eventually it was finished.  Published for the first time on kindle in May 2013, everybody who has read it has been sobbing by the end and the reviews generated on both Amazon and Goodreads have been very encouraging.

  

So much so in fact, I have since written two further novels and am currently working on my 4th, with plans for 5th, 6th and 7th all in progress.

 

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