A collection of stories that delve into the human heart.
Writing, for me, is an act of exploration. It is a way to make sense of the world, to delve into the complexities of human relationships, and to give voice to the stories that linger just beneath the surface of everyday life. My novels are often set against backdrops of historical moment or intense psychological landscapes, but at their core, they are always about the search for connection and understanding.
With my forthcoming non-fiction work, I am turning that exploratory lens inward and toward the natural world, examining the profound lessons it has to teach us. The goal remains the same: to tell a story that is honest, resonant, and emotionally true.
Experience the opening of Be More Bird. Narrated by the author, Candida Meyrick.
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Experience the opening of Be More Bird. Narrated by the author, Candida Meyrick.
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Experience the opening of Be More Bird. Narrated by the author, Candida Meyrick.
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Writing as Candida Clark, I have published six previous novels.
Voted one of the Observer’s ‘Top Twenty Writers of the Decade,’ and as one of the ‘Best of British’ writers in the New Statesman by Robert McCrum.
Described as ‘one of the most gifted novelists of her generation,’ by Paul Theroux.
J.P Donleavy - ‘As close as prose can get to poetry.’ John Boorman - ‘says the unsayable, captures the ineffable.’ Max Davidson in the Telegraph - ‘Clark hits the ground running in this haunting first novel … intense, ephemeral sweetness … the nature of love itself is held up to the microscope.'
Published 1998
A coming-of-age love-story that is also a tale of last-chance passion, where two lives collide over an inspirational weekend one hot Summer in Maine.
Of The Constant Eye, the Independent - ’Bringing to mind the best work of Muriel Spark... this is writing that restores the sense of novels being a forbidden treat.’ 'Intense, direct prose... a smart chalking-up of the price life must pay for art’, Condé Nast Traveller
Published 2000
Is all life fair game as fictional material? This tense psychological odyssey maps the cruelty of erotic obsession, explored in the pursuit of art.
Geraldine Bedell in the Observer of The Mariner’s Star - 'The Mariner's Star is a love story and, like all great love stories, a death story... a treat to be lingered over... the writing is so evocative that it feels like being inside a painting...' ‘… seizes and holds you by the force of its writing…. By the end, I was making a list of people I intended to give it to.’ DJ Taylor, The Literary Review - ‘Unlike anything else currently being written in England’
Published 2002
Lyrical and seductive, this is both an epic love-story and an anatomy of grief, as a lone woman sets out to sea to find her true North – her Mariner’s Star.
Lisa Gee of Ghost Music - ‘An intense, heady, filigree-woven novel of passion and subtle connections (written) in tension-building prose.’ ‘A virtuoso set of variations on the theme of time, intricately structured.’ - The Independent
Published 2002
The death of a Jewish actress, a body in a bog: two murders, centuries of concealment, lies and loves; the echoes of the past resonating in the present.
John O’Connell - ‘Taut, meticulously structured … charged with romance. … Clark does Elizabeth Bowen even better than Ian McEwan in his country-house novel, Atonement.’ Geraldine Bedell - ‘a compelling psychological thriller. I read it in a couple of sittings, gripped.’
Published 2005
A young photographer is caught up in an international web of deceit that unravels close to home. Who can she trust, when even her camera appears to lie?
Jane Ridley in the Spectator - ‘a storyteller of exceptional skill … knows just how to rachet up the tension to make this a country-house novel which is a truly gripping read.’ John O'Connell - ‘prose that’s both economical and expansive in the manner of mid-period Iris Murdoch … thrilling dexterity … elegant high style.’
Published 2006
Set on the first day of the ban on fox-hunting in the UK, politics, love and violence coincide. An English country house drama, with a thrilling twist.
Alongside my novels, I have written film scripts, published poetry and short fiction, which has appeared in anthologies and as dramatisations on BBC Radio 4. I have also written journalism for numerous publications, including Elle, Vogue, the Evening Standard and the political network, openDemocracy.net and been a regular book reviewer for the Telegraph, Observer, Guardian and Financial Times.
