How to Age Disgracefully

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 Radio 2 bookclub pick, a New York Times bestseller, the winner of the RNA debut novel award and a Babelio award. It's been translated into 29 languages.The People on Platform 5 is Clare's second novel, inspired by her fascination with inventing stories about her fellow passengers on her commute to work.Clare lives in Fulham, London with her husband, three children and two border terriers.