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Clare Fletcher
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Clare Fletcher

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Clare Fletcher was born and raised in St George, in regional Queensland, and studied journalism and business at QUT in Brisbane. After graduating she moved to Sydney for an internship at the Walkley Foundation for Journalism, and has been there ever since, with the exception of a couple of years spent freelancing and falling in love in New York.
Clare currently manages communications for the Walkley Foundation and is working on her second novel. In 2019 she completed the Year of the Novel Course at Writing NSW with Emily Maguire. In 2021, her short story Death’s Waiting Room won the Body In The Library category at the Scarlet Stiletto Awards. Clare lives in Sydney with her husband and daughter.

Books by Clare Fletcher

Five Bush Weddings

As a photographer, Stevie’s been to enough bush weddings to last a lifetime. When’s it going to be all about her?

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Love Match

A new romantic comedy from the author of Five Bush Weddings

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