Clara Stewardson is a writer living in Bordeaux, France. She grew up in a multicultural family, half Scottish, half French, and completely cat-crazy. She graduated from Business School while working four days a week at Disneyland Paris, where she wrote the team’s Newsletter. Since then, she moved into a more grown-up job, selling plumbing for the pharmaceutical industry. But in her spare time, Clara reads, writes middle-grade novels, and plots her conquest of the world’s bookshelves with her cat, Charlie.
She’s a regular member of the Bordeaux English Writing Club, a fervent history enthusiast, and a castle crawler.
Recently, Clara loved reading The Grimmelings by Rachael King, What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo, When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller, Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell and Marvel Comics’ Krakoan Age.
Some of her all-time favourites include Philip Pullman’s Northern Lights, Joseph Delaney’s The Spook’s Apprentice, Becky Chambers’ A Psalm For The Wild Built, Robin Hobb’s Realm of the Elderlings, J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, and everything ever written by Pierre Bottero.
Charlie is a calico cat who is very aware of how cute she is and will use it to her advantage. Charlie had a difficult start in life and was regularly bullied by her siblings. She has since found a forever home in Bordeaux, with a suitable human companion. Her favourite things are her paté, her radiator-hamac, and her jellyfish toy.
She is Clara’s current quality and deadline manager, and moonlights as an alarm clock.
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Scratchies
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Bring it on
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Mirror
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Onwards.
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Twins
