Clare Pooley

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Clare Pooley is a British novelist, speaker and blogger.

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Origins and education

Pooley 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, the Prix Babelio.

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 – in spring 2024.

List of published works

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References

  1. "OR News - Clare Pooley". e-Roedeanian. Spring 2018. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
  2. "TEDxNewnham announces speaker line-up for inaugural 2018 event, Newnham College". TEDx . 10 January 2018. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
  3. "Clare Pooley". Annette Green Authors' Agency. Archived from the original on 6 November 2018. Retrieved 6 November 2018.
  4. Clare Pooley (13 September 2017). "SoberMummy's Coming Out". Clare Pooley's blog on Blogspot . Retrieved 5 August 2024.
  5. Pooley, Clare (28 December 2017). The Sober Diaries. Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN   978-1-4736-6188-2 . Retrieved 5 August 2024.{{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  6. Katherine Cowdray (2 October 2018). "Transworld wins 'The Authenticity Project' after six-way auction" . The Bookseller. Retrieved 5 August 2024.