Clare Beams
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Clare Beams

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Clare Beams' short story collection was published in October 2016. It won the Kirkus Best Debut and was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. Clare lives in Pittsburgh, where she teaches creative writing, most recently at Carnegie Mellon University and Pittsburgh Centre for the Arts. This is her first novel.

Books by Clare Beams
The Illness Lesson
Clare Beams

Sarah Waters meets The Girls in this haunting, wickedly perceptive debut set in an all-girls school and addressing the timeless question: Who has authority over a woman's body? 'A modern scream of female outrage' Elizabeth Gilbert

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