Clover Stroud

Clover Stroud is a writer and journalist, writing regularly for the Sunday Times, the Guardian and the Saturday and Sunday Telegraph, among others. She also hosts a popular podcast called Tiny Acts of Bravery. Her first book, The Wild Other, was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize. Her critically acclaimed second book, My Wild and Sleepless Nights: A Mother's Story, and third book, The Red of My Blood: A Death and Life Story, were instant Sunday Times bestsellers and rated 'best books of the year'. She is now back in Oxfordshire, having spent three years in Washington DC with her husband and the youngest three of her five children.

Books by Clover Stroud

The Red of my Blood

Clover Stroud

A Sunday Times bestseller and a Times and Independent 'must read': a raw and penetrating memoir from this critically acclaimed author about surviving the loss of her sister and embracing death as an essential, and enriching, part of life.

My Wild and Sleepless Nights

Clover Stroud

'What does being a mother really feel like? Clover Stroud's powerhouse of a memoir gets closer than anything else I have read to answering that question.' Alice O'Keeffe, The Guardian.
From the Sunday Times Bestselling author Clover Stroud, comes a raw, honest and deeply personal account of what it means to be a mother, touching on motherhood, identity and sexuality.

Home

Clover Stroud

Faced with the sudden prospect of uprooting her young children to move to the US, while her eldest fly the nest to university, the acclaimed memoirist and nature writer considers what home means, and what ties us to the places we love.