Carol Clewlow

A journalist by trade, Carol Clewlow’s first publication at the end of the l970s was a travel book, Hongkong and Macau, the second one to be published by the then fledgling but now famous Lonely Planet company. Her first novel, Keeping the Faith, written ten years later while a mature student at university was short listed for the Whitbread Prize first novel prize. Her second, the best selling A Woman's Guide to Adultery was translated into 15 languages and turned into a TV mini series while a third Love in the Modern Sense plus a number of her short stories have been read on Radio 4. As well as fiction, she has a keen interest in drama, adapting a further novel One For The Money, set in the rock music industry, for performance at the Edinburgh Fringe. The first writer in residence in a UK medical school, she is a founder member of Operating Theatre (http://www.operatingtheatre.org.uk/), based in Northern Stage in Newcastle, and at the Newcastle Medical School and for whom she has written more than a dozen plays on health and medical issues. Her latest novel, also a best seller, is Not Married Not Bothered. An experienced teacher of creative writing, she is currently working on a sixth novel.