Clare is a crime writer best known for her million-selling debut novel, I Let You Go, a Richard And Judy Book Club pick that was also Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year in 2016.
If the Covid Inquiry is looking for anything else to add to its expensive agenda, it might reflect on this: how pandemic-era boys cooped up in their bedrooms got hooked on the worst of the internet.
Some will scoff, writes CLARE FOGES, but I can relate to the uncomfortable truth that putting your career on the backburner when you become a mother brings mixed emotions down the line.
After years of undignified advances to other parents in the playgrounds and playgroups, I've given up on having a gang of 'mum friends', writes CLARE FOGES