Background
Clare Elizabeth Mary Mackintosh was born on August 28, 1976, in Bristol, England, United Kingdom.
2013
author Clare Mackintosh
2015
Cotswold Life columnist and author Clare Mackintosh.
2015
author Clare Mackintosh
2015
author Clare Mackintosh
2016
Clare Mackintosh in Paris.
2016
Clare Mackintosh received the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award.
2016
author Clare Mackintosh
2016
Clare Mackintosh is receiving the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award.
2017
With Jason Monaghan, who interviewed Clare for Guernsey Lit Fest.
2017
With Jeff McArthur, who interviewed Clare Mackintosh on The Morning Show in between much more important news segments about the Presidential inauguration.
2018
author Clare Mackintosh with a popular TV host Graham Norton.
2018
With author Ruskin Bond.
2018
Clare Mackintosh with Amanda Jennings and Colette McBeth at the Harrogate International Festival.
2018
Clare Mackintosh at the Theakston’s Old Peculier crime writing festival - the weekend when hundreds of crime fans descend on Harrogate, buy books, drink wine, and chat with friends. Catching up here with authors Fiona Barton and Teresa Driscoll.
2019
Clare Mackintosh with her kids.
2019
Author Clare Mackintosh is signing her books.
2019
author Clare Mackintosh
Royal Holloway University, Egham, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Mackintosh went to Royal Holloway University in Surrey, taking a degree in French and management.
author Clare Mackintosh
(On a rainy afternoon, a mother's life is shattered as her...)
On a rainy afternoon, a mother's life is shattered as her son slips from her grip and runs into the street. Jenna Gray moves to a ramshackle cottage on the remote Welsh coast, trying to escape the memory of the car accident that plays again and again in her mind and desperate to heal from the loss of her child and the rest of her painful past.
https://www.amazon.com/Let-You-Go-Clare-Mackintosh-ebook/dp/B013D669UC/?tag=2022091-20
2015
(It all starts during her commute home one night. Zoe Walk...)
It all starts during her commute home one night. Zoe Walker glances through her local paper and sees her own face staring back at her in a classified ad. With the grainy photo is a phone number and a listing for a website called FindTheOne.com. In the following days, she sees other women in the same ad, a different one every day, and nearly all of them show up in the newspapers as victims of increasingly violent crimes - including murder.
https://www.amazon.com/I-See-You-Clare-Mackintosh/dp/1101988304/?tag=2022091-20
2016
(The police say it was suicide. Anna says it was murder. T...)
The police say it was suicide. Anna says it was murder. They're both wrong. Last year, Tom and Caroline Johnson chose to end their lives, one seemingly unable to live without the other. Their daughter, Anna, is struggling to come to terms with her parents' deaths, unwilling to accept the verdict of suicide. Now with a baby herself, Anna feels her mother's absence keenly and is determined to find out what really happened to her parents. But as she digs up the past, someone is trying to stop her. Sometimes it's safer to let things lie.
https://www.amazon.com/Let-Me-Lie-Clare-Mackintosh/dp/0451490533/?tag=2022091-20
2018
(Max and Pip are the strongest couple you know. They're be...)
Max and Pip are the strongest couple you know. They're best friends, lovers - unshakable. But then their son gets sick and the doctors put the question of his survival into their hands. For the first time, Max and Pip can't agree. They each want a different future for their son. What if they could have both?
https://www.amazon.com/After-End-Clare-Mackintosh/dp/0451490568/?tag=2022091-20
2019
Clare Elizabeth Mary Mackintosh was born on August 28, 1976, in Bristol, England, United Kingdom.
Mackintosh went to Royal Holloway University in Surrey, taking a degree in French and management, and spent a year in Paris as part of the course.
Clare Mackintosh spent twelve years in the police force prior to starting her writing career. She was even posted on promotion to Chipping Norton as town sergeant before becoming Thames Valley Police’s operations inspector for Oxfordshire.
Clare left the police in 2011 to work as a freelance journalist and social media consultant. She has written for a variety of publications, including The Guardian, Sainsbury’s Magazine, The Green Parent, WI Life, and Practical Parenting. Earlier this year she signed a two-book publishing deal with Sphere, an imprint of Little, Brown.
Clare's debut novel, I Let You Go, is a Sunday Times bestseller and was the fastest-selling title by a new crime writer in 2015. It was selected for both the Richard and Judy Book Club and was the winning title of the readers' vote for the summer 2015 selection, and ITV's Loose Women's Loose Books. Her second novel, I See You, is a number 1 Sunday Times bestseller, and a Richard and Judy Book Club pick. Clare's books are translated into more than 30 languages.
Clare is the patron of the Silver Star Society, an Oxford-based charity which supports the work carried out in the John Radcliffe Hospital's Silver Star unit, providing special care for mothers with medical complications during pregnancy.
(On a rainy afternoon, a mother's life is shattered as her...)
2015(It all starts during her commute home one night. Zoe Walk...)
2016(Max and Pip are the strongest couple you know. They're be...)
2019(The police say it was suicide. Anna says it was murder. T...)
2018
Quotations:
"My son died when he was five weeks old. It was, and still is, the hardest thing that has ever happened to me. I found some of the scenes in I Let You Go exceptionally difficult to write and extremely emotional. There would be times when I would be sitting at my keyboard, tears streaming down my cheeks, wanting that particular scene to be over. It was just too raw, too real. But overall I think I did find it cathartic, just as I have always found it therapeutic to blog about the way I feel."
"I enjoyed writing from both perspectives; it was great to draw on my police experience to write Ray's chapters, and I felt so emotionally invested in Jenna's character that it was a joy to write. The third narrator - it's impossible to discuss this in any depth without spoiling the plot was difficult to write, simply because I didn't want to spend any more time in their head than I had to!"
“I benefited from exceptional care during two high-risk pregnancies, and will always be grateful for it. The family rooms provided by the Silver Star Society meant that, following traumatic and emotional labor, my husband could stay with me and my twins for several days. It is a great honor to be invited to be a patron of the Silver Star Society and I hope that I can help continue the astonishing work carried out by so many dedicated volunteers.”
"Discovering, in my early thirties, that I could write words other people wanted to read, was like being handed the key to a new world. At the time I was working as a Police Inspector, pulling between fifty and sixty hours a week, and rarely getting home in time to put my three children – then aged 2, 1 and 1 – to bed. I wanted to make radical changes, but leaving an organization I loved was an even bigger decision than joining it in the first place. Who would I be without the uniform? How would we live without my salary? What would we do without the promise of my pension?"
Mackintosh is a member and patron of the Silver Star Society, a charity supporting the John Radcliffe Hospital's work with families facing difficult pregnancies.
Clare said about herself: "I am a natural goal-setter. I don’t believe in having idle dreams: if you want something, and it’s realistic, then you should do it. In my mind then – and indeed now – becoming a writer was no different a goal than becoming a doctor, or a teacher, or a mechanic. You check you have the skills; you draw up a list of actions needed; then you just bloody well do it. I believe firmly that everyone is capable of achieving their goals, and nothing makes me crosser than parents, friends or colleagues who dismiss someone’s realistic goals as nothing more than idle dreams. Ignore the nay-sayers and just do it. I did."
Clare Mackintosh lives in the Cotswolds, United Kingdom, with her husband and their three children. In 2006, Mackintosh delivered twin boys prematurely. Her son Alex contracted meningitis and died when he was a few weeks old. When her surviving son was 15 months old, Mackintosh gave birth to a second set of twins.