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CLARE FLYNN
HISTORICAL FICTION - MODERN THEMES
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Sydney to Colombo — writing about two worlds in one year
Sometimes when working I get dizzy. Not out of tiredness, though there's plenty of that, but from the distance I travel without leaving my chair. One day I'm walking the blacked-out streets of wartime Sydney, absorbing the anxiety of a city that suddenly finds the war not on the other side of the world but terrifyingly close to home. The next day, I'm on a hillside in Sri Lanka, back when it was called Ceylon, surrounded by a green counterpane of tea bushes stretching in ever

Clare Flynn
Apr 84 min read


On Location – at The Galle Face Hotel
Clare Flynn stays at Galle Face Hotel, a key location in two of her Penang Series novels.

Clare Flynn
Mar 7, 20254 min read
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