Clare Pooley is a British writer. Educated at Roedean School and at Newnham College, Cambridge, where she read economics, she spent some twenty years in advertising at J. Walter Thompson before leaving the industry. In 2015 she began blogging anonymously as SoberMummy about giving up drinking, and revealed her identity in 2017; the blog became her memoir The Sober Diaries (2018). Her first novel, The Authenticity Project (2020), was a New York Times bestseller and won the Romantic Novelists' Association Debut Award. It was followed by The People on Platform 5 (2022), published in North America as Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting, and How to Age Disgracefully (2024). She lives in London and Cornwall.
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Clare Pooley is a British writer. Educated at Roedean School and at Newnham College, Cambridge, where she read economics, she spent some twenty years in advertising at J. Walter Thompson before leaving the industry. In 2015 she began blogging anonymously as SoberMummy about giving up drinking, and revealed her identity in 2017; the blog became her memoir The Sober Diaries (2018). Her first novel, The Authenticity Project (2020), was a New York Times bestseller and won the Romantic Novelists' Association Debut Award. It was followed by The People on Platform 5 (2022), published in North America as Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting, and How to Age Disgracefully (2024). She lives in London and Cornwall.
