ANOTHER GREAT CHRISTMAS GATHERING IN LONDON OF SOCIETY OF WOMEN WRITERS & JOURNALISTS

Last week, my table companion and new friend, Clare Whitfield, the Sunday Telegraph's bestselling  novelist, was our brilliant speaker at SWWJ's  Christmas gathering at London's Marble Arch venue, The Victory Services Club. 

Clare is the author of three novels, the first, People of Abandoned Character, a historical mystery about Jack the Ripper and his wife, was published in 2020 and won the Goldsboro Glass Bell 2021. Her second book, The Gone and the Forgotten was published in 2022 and is described as part psychological thriller and a coming-of-age story of buried family secrets. Her third and most recent novel, Poor Girls, is inspired by the real-life all-female crime gang known as The 40 Elephants and was shortlisted for a CWA Historical Crime Dagger award.

Clare places women as the central criminal or as leaders front and facing in her novels, a role not often portrayed by women in times gone by. Combining crime and history is a result of Clare’s love of history in general and her passion for learning something new with everything she writes. She also spoke of juggling writing alongside her full-time job as a project manager and mother to her daughter. More photos can be found on our SWWJ website - https://www.swwj.co.uk/

Viv Brown our Hon SWWJ Secretary