Clare Pooley Books

Clare Pooley graduated from Newnham College, Cambridge, and spent twenty years in the heady world of advertising, before becoming a full-time writer.

Clare's dark but hilarious memoir, The Sober Diaries, has helped thousands of people around the world to quit drinking.

The Authenticity Project, Clare's debut novel, was a BBC Rado 2 Bookclub pick, a New York Times bestseller, the winner of the RNA debut novel award, and a Babelio award. It has been translated into 29 languages.

Friends You Haven't Met Yet is her fourth novel.

Clare lives in Fulham, London, with her husband, three children and two border terriers.