Carol Clewlow

Best-selling author of five novels, including A Woman’s Guide to Adultery and Keeping the Faith, Carol Clewlow began her career as a journalist. She trained on the Somerset County Gazette before joining the Belfast Telegraph as a news reporter at the outbreak of the Troubles in 1969. In 1972, she left to travel overland to India, moving on further to Hong Kong where she became Woman’s Page Editor on the China Mail. Returning to England, she worked as a freelance in the North of England for all the country’s national papers before becoming a BBC Radio Journalist. Her spell in Hong Kong led to her being commissioned by the newly established Lonely Planet to produce its second ever travel guide, for Hong Kong and Macau.

Her first novel, Keeping the Faith, was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award, and her second - the bestselling A Woman's Guide to Adultery - was long listed for the Booker Prize, translated into 15 languages and turned into a television drama starring Sean Bean. Her third novel Love in the Modern Sense - and several of her short stories - have been produced on BBC Radio 4. She is also the author of One For the Money, performed at the Edinburgh Fringe, and Not Married, Not Bothered, published by HarperCollins. 

A former Royal Literary Fellow, she was the first Writer in Residence in a UK medical school, and was a founder member of Operating Theatre, for whom she wrote plays on health and medical issues. She lives in Tyneside and is currently working on a new novel.