Clare Pooley
Clare Pooley is a British blogger and novelist.
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 16 other languages.[6]
Personal life
Pooley is married to John Stevenson-Hamilton.[7] The couple live in London and have three children.
External links
- Mummy was a Secret Drinker, Clare Pooley’s blog.
References
- ^ The Roedeanian, Spring 2018, at page 6
- ^ TEDxNewnham announces speaker line-up for inaugural 2018 event, Newnham College web-site, accessed on 6 November 2018
- ^ Clare Pooley, Annette Green Authors’ Agency web-site, accessed on 6 November 2018
- ^ "SoberMummy’s Coming Out", Mummy was a Secret Drinker, 13 September 2017
- ^ The Sober Diaries: How one woman stopped drinking and started living (Coronet, December 2017), Hodder & Stoughton web-site, accessed on 6 November 2018
- ^ Katherine Cowdray, Transworld wins ‘The Authenticity Project’ after six-way auction, The Bookseller, 3 October 2018
- ^ Daily Telegraph announcement, 26 April 2006
