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Clare Leslie Hall is a novelist and journalist who lives in the wilds of Dorset, England, with her family. Under the name Clare Empson, she published two domestic noir thrillers, Him and Mine, that were published in the UK and Germany. She has always loved The Go Between by LP Hartley and Broken Country is a nod to it, featuring a forbidden love affair with catastrophic repercussions. Broken Country is her US debut.

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“It’s strange, the patchwork stories we tell someone when we want them to catch up, a shortcut to knowing us, as if such a thing were possible.”
Clare Leslie Hall, Broken Country

“You have to fool yourself into thinking you already are the thing you want to become.”
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“This is a love story with too many beginnings. I refuse to think about how it is going to end.”
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In Jan-Feb 2026 we read Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall. Was this book a 5 star read for you?

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