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Claire McGowan

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Claire McGowan grew up in a small village in Northern Ireland. After a degree in English and French from Oxford University she moved to London and worked in the charity sector. THE FALL is her first novel.


If Twitter has taught me anything it’s that people who create stuff are a deeply neurotic bunch, quick to panic and anger, sliding into hopelessness at the slightest knockback, yet at the same time doomed to megalomaniac dreams of world domination (when I say ‘people’ here, I obviously mean ‘me’, you see). My own second book having just come out, I’ve been thinking a lot about the (mostly very...

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Published on April 17, 2013 07:28 • 22 views
Average rating: 3.79 · 126 ratings · 41 reviews · 3 distinct works · Similar authors
The Fall
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions
The Lost
4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions
Am Rande des Abgrunds
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating

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Zoë Sharp Hi Claire
Thanks for Friending me here! Nice to catch up with you. How's the writing going? And will you be at Harrogate?


Eyehavenofilter Thanks for the friend accept.... I think I'm going to like your style.... A lot!


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