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Clover Stroud
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Clover Stroud

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Clover Stroud is a writer and journalist writing for the Daily Mail, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph and Conde Nast Traveller among others. She lives in Oxfordshire with her husband and five children. Her first book, The Wild Other, was shortlisted for The Wainwright Prize.

Books by Clover Stroud

The Red of my Blood

A Sunday Times bestseller and a Times and Independent 'must read': a raw and penetrating memoir from this critically acclaimed author about surviving the loss of her sister and embracing death as an essential, and enriching, part of life.

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My Wild and Sleepless Nights

'What does being a mother really feel like? Clover Stroud's powerhouse of a memoir gets closer than anything else I have read to answering that question.' Alice O'Keeffe, The Guardian.
From the Sunday Times Bestselling author Clover Stroud, comes a raw, honest and deeply personal account of what it means to be a mother, touching on motherhood, identity and sexuality.

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The Giant on the Skyline

Faced with the sudden prospect of uprooting her young children to move to the US, while her eldest fly the nest to university, the acclaimed memoirist and nature writer considers what home means, and what ties us to the places we love.

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