Clare Pooley

Clare Pooley is a British blogger and novelist.

Origins and education

Clare Pooley is the daughter of Peter Pooley CMG, a former Director-General of the European Commission. She was educated at Roedean School[1] and Newnham College, Cambridge,[2] from which she graduated with a degree in Economics.

Career

Pooley first pursued a career in advertising at J. Walter Thompson, in due course becoming a Managing Partner and Group Head, before leaving the work-place on the birth of her third child.[3]

In 2015, Pooley began a blog, Mummy was a Secret Drinker, about her life following a resolution to give up alcohol. She blogged under a pseudonym until the announcement of her first book deal in September 2017.[4]

Pooley’s first book, The Sober Diaries, was a narrative of her first year of sobriety and also included an account of her successful battle to overcome breast cancer.[5]

In October 2018, it was announced that Pooley’s fictional debut, The Authenticity Project, had been the subject of a six-way auction, with Transworld securing UK and Commonwealth rights, Penguin Random House acquiring the US rights, and foreign rights sold in 16 other languages.[6]

Personal life

Pooley is married to John Stevenson-Hamilton.[7] The couple live in London and have three children.

References
  1. The Roedeanian, Spring 2018, at page 6
  2. TEDxNewnham announces speaker line-up for inaugural 2018 event, Newnham College web-site, accessed on 6 November 2018
  3. Clare Pooley, Annette Green Authors’ Agency web-site, accessed on 6 November 2018
  4. "SoberMummy’s Coming Out", Mummy was a Secret Drinker, 13 September 2017
  5. The Sober Diaries: How one woman stopped drinking and started living (Coronet, December 2017), Hodder & Stoughton web-site, accessed on 6 November 2018
  6. Katherine Cowdray, Transworld wins ‘The Authenticity Project’ after six-way auction, The Bookseller, 3 October 2018
  7. Daily Telegraph announcement, 26 April 2006
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