When you think you've lost everything - including your best friend - love doesn't seem such a great idea.
Claire Calman is the author of four novels, Love is a Four Letter
Word, Lessons For a Sunday Father, I Like it Like That and Cross My
Heart and Hope to Die, all published by Black Swan.
Calman first decided to write a book when she discovered that it
mainly involved making cups of tea and gazing out of the window. It
was some time before a real writer friend pointed out that if she
were to select an assortment of words and arrange them in some kind
of order, this would speed up the process no end. Spurred on by
this invaluable hint, she wrote Love is a Four Letter Word, a funny
yet poignant story of love and loss.
Before she got into daydreaming full time, Calman spent several
years working in women's magazines, then in book publishing,
editing gardening books. She is also a poet and broadcaster and has
performed her pithy verse at live readings and on radio many times,
including for BBC Radio Four's Woman's Hour, Loose Ends, the comedy
series Five Squeezy Pieces and for LBC. Her short stories have
appeared in numerous magazines as well as in various anthologies,
including Cheatin' Heart, the best-selling Girls' Night In, Summer
Magic and A Day in the Life.
Claire Calman lives in London with her husband, son, and an
unbelievable amount of unfiled paperwork.
'Simply wonderful! I was totally enchanted'
*Fiona Walker*
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