Clare Pooley

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Clare Pooley is a British novelist, speaker and blogger.

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Origins and education

Clare Pooley is the daughter of Peter Pooley CMG, a former Director-General of the European Commission. She was educated at Roedean School [1] and Newnham College, Cambridge, [2] from which she graduated with a degree in Economics.

Career

Pooley first pursued a career in advertising at J. Walter Thompson, in due course becoming a Managing Partner and Group Head, before leaving the work-place on the birth of her third child. [3]

In 2015, Pooley began a blog, Mummy was a Secret Drinker, about her life following a resolution to give up alcohol. She blogged under a pseudonym until the announcement of her first book deal in September 2017. [4]

Pooley’s first book, The Sober Diaries, was a narrative of her first year of sobriety and also included an account of her successful battle to overcome breast cancer. [5]

In October 2018, it was announced that Pooley’s fictional debut, The Authenticity Project, had been the subject of a six-way auction, with Transworld securing UK and Commonwealth rights, Penguin Random House acquiring the US rights, and foreign rights sold in 29 other languages. [6]

The Authenticity Project, published in 2020, was a New York Times Bestseller, and the winner of the RNA debut novel award. It was also awarded best novel in translation in the French Babelio awards.

Pooley’s second novel, titled The People on Platform 5 in the UK, and Iona Iverson’s Rules for Commuting in the USA, was published in 2022, and her third – How to Age Disgracefully – is out in spring 2024.

Personal life

Pooley is married to John Stevenson-Hamilton. [7]

List of published works

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References

  1. The Roedeanian, Spring 2018, at page 6
  2. TEDxNewnham announces speaker line-up for inaugural 2018 event, Newnham College web-site, accessed on 6 November 2018
  3. Clare Pooley, Annette Green Authors’ Agency web-site Archived 6 November 2018 at the Wayback Machine , accessed on 6 November 2018
  4. "SoberMummy’s Coming Out", Mummy was a Secret Drinker, 13 September 2017
  5. The Sober Diaries: How one woman stopped drinking and started living (Coronet, December 2017), Hodder & Stoughton web-site, accessed on 6 November 2018
  6. Katherine Cowdray, Transworld wins ‘The Authenticity Project’ after six-way auction, The Bookseller, 3 October 2018
  7. Daily Telegraph announcement, 26 April 2006
  8. POOLEY, CLARE (2018). SOBER DIARIES : how one woman stopped drinking and started living. [Place of publication not identified]: CORONET Books. ISBN   978-1-4736-6190-5. OCLC   1017604130.
  9. Pooley, Clare (2020). The Authenticity Project. London. ISBN   978-1-78763-178-6. OCLC   1140277386.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)