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Event 14

Tuesday 4th November 2025 | 2 pm

Event 14 | Clare Leslie Hall | Broken Country

£12.00

Clare Leslie Hall – Broken Country – A Novel

A moving account of love, loss and family, Clare Leslie Hall’s novel follows seventeen year old Beth when she first meets Gabriel, over a heady, intense Summer. When Gabriel leaves, it is Frank who picks up the pieces. Together they build a home, and watching her husband and son riding a tractor across their farm, Beth feels sure that this was the life she was supposed to lead. However, when Gabriel returns, all Beth’s certainty crumbles – even after ten years, their connection is instant. A love story with the pulse of a thriller, Broken Country is a heart-pounding novel of impossible choices and devastating consequences.

in conversation with Lucy Brazier

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When: Tuesday 4th November 2025 @ 2 pm
Where: The Bull Ballroom

Description

Clare Leslie Hall is a journalist and novelist with a background in national newspapers. She published two domestic noir novels, Him and Mine, before turning to book club fiction with her third novel Broken Country. Clare is married with three children and lives in Dorset in an old farmhouse surrounded by fields, which inspired the setting for her novel.

Lucy Brazier is a ghost writer and author.  She began her career at the BBC before becoming a talent agent representing actors and presenters.  After twenty years, she and her young family left London and moved to Dorset where she worked with the broadcaster Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.  She became a full-time writer six years ago, has ghost-written over twelve books and her first book in her own name was Christmas at River Cottage.  Her most recent book The Honesty Box, was published this year.

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