Clare Leslie Hall

Clare Leslie Hall is a novelist and journalist. She published two domestic noir novels HIM and MINE under the name Clare Empson and has turned to book group fiction with her third novel BROKEN COUNTRY.

BROKEN COUNTRY is set to be published in over 30 territories and, since UK and US publication, is a Sunday Times and New York Times Bestseller. It was also Reese’s Book Club Pick and Fearne Cotton’s The Happy Place Book Club pick for March 2025. It has been optioned by 3000 pictures with Hello Sunshine producing.

Clare has always loved The Go Between by LP Hartley and BROKEN COUNTRY has a nod to it, featuring a forbidden love affair with catastrophic repercussions.

Clare lives in Dorset with her family.

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