Historical novelist Clare Flynn is a former global marketing director and strategy consultant. She now lives in Eastbourne on the south coast of England and most of her time these days is spent writing her novels - when she's not gazing out of her windows at the sea.The author of fifteen novels and a short story collection, her books deal with displacement - her characters are wrenched away from their comfortable existences and forced to face new challenges - often in outposts of an empire which largely disappeared after WW2.