Broken Country

A love story like no other – CHRIS WHITAKER, author of All the Colours of the Dark Broken Country destroyed me … it is set to be the love story of 2025. I cannot recommend it highly enough. Clare Leslie Hall’s writing is beautiful, her characters raw and real. The plot is perfectly crafted and the story really is a masterpiece. Sublime. – HEATHER CRITCHLOW A stone-cold masterpiece - heartbreaking, life-affirming, it’s a celebration of love in all its forms. I loved every line - Hall is an astonishing writer – KATE SIMANTS Beautiful writing you want to gorge on, characters who make your heart ache, an impossible situation. Grief, friendship, and the kind of love that makes you risk it all. All the stars. – LAURA PEARSON An absolute triumph. This novel has all kinds of love - young love, forbidden love, brotherly love - all wrapped up in the most beautifully evocative descriptions of a pastoral landscape. Mistakes, bad choices and accidents conspire to create a slow-burn mystery with tragedy at its heart, yet there is hope too in this story of splintered loyalties and unbridled passion. Poetic, erotic and compelling, it is quite magnificent – VERONICA HENRY

After several years of living and working in London as a journalist and writing Pictures of Him and Days You Were Mine, Clare, her husband and three children moved to an old farmhouse in Dorset. The house, the ancient fields surrounding it and the farmers who have a deep connection to the land inspired the setting for Broken Country.

Broken Country will be published in thirty-one countries.