Clare Chambers was born in
Croydon,
Greater London, the daughter of English teachers. In 1984, she went up to Oxford to read English at
Hertford College. After graduating, she and her future husband, Peter, also a teacher, moved to New Zealand, where she wrote her first novel. The couple lived in Norwood, Surrey, close to Selhurst Park, and in 1993 moved to Bromley,
Kent, where they brought up their children. ==Bibliography==