Clare Flynn is the award-winning author of twelve historical novels and a short story collection. She lives in the UK on the Sussex coast where she can gaze at the sea from her window.Winner of the 2020 BookBrunch Selfies Adult Fiction Prize, for The Pearl of Penang, Clare’s books are mostly set in the twentieth century, with half of them set before during and after World War 2.She often writes around the theme of displacement with several of her books set in the colonial outposts of the British empire.