COMING IN PAPERBACK
UK: NOVEMBER 2026
US: FEBRUARY 2027
“You do not need to drink blood to devour someone;
you can drain them from within, spirit and soul.”
Praise for Clare’s Writing
“Poor Girls is a brave, bold novel, illuminating the present through the past. It shows us how women have so often had to take the rights that society refuses to give them.”
—Araminta Hall
“The story moves along at a terrific pace with wonderfully roguish characters, and great period detail. Really enjoyable.”
—Ian Moore
About
Clare Whitfield is a UK based writer. While studying for an MA in Creative & Critical Writing at the University of Winchester, her fiction appeared on Spelk, Commuter-Lit, Literary Orphans and in Matt Shaw’s Masters of Horror anthology. Clare has published three crime fiction novels, People of Abandoned Character, which won the Goldsboro Glass Bell Award in 2021 and was shortlisted for the CWA Debut Dagger 2021; The Gone and The Forgotten; and Poor Girls, which was shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger award and also for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize in 2026. Clare was also the judge for the Writers & Artists Working Class Writer’s prize in 2024.
Contact
You can contact Clare at clarerileywhitfield@gmail.com or by using the button below.
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Press Bio
Clare Whitfield is a UK based writer. While studying for an MA in Creative & Critical Writing at the University of Winchester, her fiction appeared on Spelk, Commuter-Lit, Literary Orphans and in Matt Shaw’s Masters of Horror anthology. Clare has published three crime fiction novels, People of Abandoned Character, which won the Goldsboro Glass Bell Award in 2021 and was shortlisted for the CWA Debut Dagger 2021; The Gone and The Forgotten; and Poor Girls, which was shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger award and also for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize in 2026. Clare was also the judge for the Writers & Artists Working Class Writer’s prize in 2024.