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Claire Barker

A Room of My Own: Children’s author Claire Barker shares her writing space

A Room of My Own: Children’s author Claire Barker shares her writing space

Faber  |  21 September 201821 September 2018

Most of my mornings start the same way: I march up the big hill with the dogs and fill my pockets with treasures – nuts, leaves, snail shells, pebbles. We crunch through the silent woods as crows watch us and buzzards sail on the thermals overhead. Then I make an eye-poppingly strong pot of coffee…

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