Claire Calman
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Claire Calman

Literature & Fiction | Comedy & Humor
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Claire Calman (b.1964) has written six novels. Her first, Love is a Four-Letter Word, became a bestseller. Her latest novel, A Second-Hand Husband, was published in June 2021. She has also written numerous short stories for anthologies and magazines, and has performed her comic verse live and on radio, including for BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. 'What fascinates me is what makes people tick,' says Calman. 'Why do we act and react in ways that won't necessarily make us happy?' She says conventional romance doesn't interest her. What intrigues her is struggle and conflict - people yearning for happiness, but finding it hard to get there. But she also hates books with depressing endings. 'Life is difficult enough for most people,' she says. 'I want a novel that doesn't leave me feeling worse than when I started it. I want - not a sugar-coated ending I don't believe in - but some glimmer of hope, or redemption, a sense of absolute rightness.'
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