Claire North is the pen name of Catherine Webb, a British novelist born in London in 1986, who published her first novel as a teenager and also writes urban fantasy as Kate Griffin. As Claire North she made her name with The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August (2014), followed by Touch, The Sudden Appearance of Hope, which won the World Fantasy Award, 84K and Notes from the Burning Age. Her Songs of Penelope trilogy — Ithaca, House of Odysseus and The Last Song of Penelope — retells the Odyssey from the women's side.
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Claire North is the pen name of Catherine Webb, a British novelist born in London in 1986, who published her first novel as a teenager and also writes urban fantasy as Kate Griffin. As Claire North she made her name with The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August (2014), followed by Touch, The Sudden Appearance of Hope, which won the World Fantasy Award, 84K and Notes from the Burning Age. Her Songs of Penelope trilogy — Ithaca, House of Odysseus and The Last Song of Penelope — retells the Odyssey from the women's side.
