In Conversation With… award-winning author Clare Pooley

Clare Pooley is the author of The Sober Diaries and The Authenticity Project—a New York Times and international bestseller, and winner of the RNA debut novel award. She joins us from Fulham, London, England where she lives with her husband, three children, two border terriers, and an African pygmy hedgehog!

After twenty years in the heady world of advertising where, according to her bio, she worked hard, played hard and drank even harder, Clare realized that she had to say farewell to alcohol, and started a blog—Mummy was a Secret Drinker—by way of therapy, which ultimately became a memoir: The Sober Diaries. Clare then used her experience of telling the truth about her own shady life to inspire her first novel: The Authenticity Project.

For more about Clare, visit her website and follow her on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

In this conversation, we talk about how writing (both fiction and nonfiction) can serve as a tool for those dealing with addictions, and what role writing plays in her life now.