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'Big' historians tend to stride into the room, fling open the wardrobe, and pull out all the clothes, giving them a really good once over. And I applaud them for doing it. We need them. But I am interested in looking down the dusty sides of the wardrobe, or even behind it, finding things, that at first glance, we never remembered having in the first place, but once found, can shift our sense of the past, by even a tiny fraction. 

 

Sarah Barclay is a journalist and author. Born in London, she grew up in Jamaica and the English countryside. After reading English at Edinburgh, she worked as a journalist, editor, stylist and copywriter in London. For sixteen years she had a weekly beauty column in the Mail on Sunday's YOU Magazine. 

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After leaving YOU Magazine, she wrote Eden's Keepers, her first narrative non-fiction story about platonic lifelong friends who lived through the First and Second World Wars. Describing Eden's Keepers as 'the true love story behind about the creation of a famously beautiful garden'. Eden's Keepers was published in July 2022 by Clearview Books. 

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 She has written for Vogue, Tatler, Sunday Times, Daily Mail, Saturday Express, Marie Claire and Madame Figaro. In 1999, she wrote 

Faking It! How to be a Natural Born Beauty (pub Carlton 1999), a tongue-in-cheek, then subversive beauty book challenging the notion that physical perfection is desirable but feeling wonderful is worth a try. Faking It! was serialised in the Daily Mail, banded onto British Elle and translated into several languages. 

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She lives in the English countryside with her family and many animals and is currently working on her next narrative non-fiction book which is set in London, Jamaica and America . Her particular interest is taking a fresh look at events in history with reference to the natural world and the remarkable stories of seemingly ordinary people swept up in it. ​​

 

Favourite and influential writers include Angela Carter, Kate Atkinson,

Polly Samson, Iris Murdoch, Alan Hollinghurst and Catherine Bailey.    

For interviews or literary festival bookings, contact Clearview Books or message direct from the website link.