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Beautifully written, Clairmont tells the sensuous hidden story of an influential historic woman. * Sara Sheridan *

Beautifully written, Clairmont tells the sensuous hidden story of an influential historic woman. * Sara Sheridan * A novel that captures feverish infatuation, devastating betrayal and the glimpse of a legendary moment in history; Clairmont is an absorbing, intoxicating page-turner about a woman who deserves to be remembered. * Jennifer Saint * A sensitive, beautifully told fictionalisation that gives a voice to one of literature's greatest muses. * Laura Shepperson *

Beautifully written, Clairmont tells the sensuous hidden story of an influential historic woman. * Sara Sheridan * A novel that captures feverish infatuation, devastating betrayal and the glimpse of a legendary moment in history; Clairmont is an absorbing, intoxicating page-turner about a woman who deserves to be remembered. * Jennifer Saint *

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Lesley McDowell's debut novel The Picnic came out in 2007. In 2010 she published Between the Sheets: The Literary Liaisons of Nine 20th-Century Women Writers, which was shortlisted for the non-fiction prize in the 2011 Scottish Book Awards. Her second novel Unfashioned Creatures, about Mary Shelley's Scottish childhood friend, was published in 2013. Lesley was a literary critic for The Herald, The Scotsman, The Independent, TLS and others. She has a PhD on the work of James Joyce, and has won three Creative Scotland writers' bursaries. Clairmont is her third novel.

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