Clover Stroud - Penguin Books New Zealand

Clover Stroud is a writer and journalist; she has written for national media since she was twenty-five, and her Substack, ‘The Way Life Feels’, is a bestseller. Her first book, The Wild Other, was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize. Her critically acclaimed second book, My Wild and Sleepless Nights: A Mother’s Story, and third book, The Red of My Blood: A Death and Life Story, were instant Sunday Times bestsellers and rated ‘best books of the year’. Her fourth, A Giant on the Skyline: On Home, Belonging and Learning to Let Go (‘Stroud’s best memoir yet’, Daily Mail) described the year before she and three of her five children joined her husband in Washington DC. She and her family are now back in Oxfordshire.

Books by Clover Stroud

The Red of my Blood

Clover Stroud

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.

My Wild and Sleepless Nights

Clover Stroud

'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.

The Giant on the Skyline

Clover Stroud

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.