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Clare Pooley is a British blogger and writer.

Clare Pooley graduated from Newnham College, Cambridge, and worked for twenty years in the intoxicating world of advertising before becoming a full-time mother.

Realizing that her habit of “drinking wine” had got out of control, Clare started the blog “Mummy was a Secret Drinker,” which was visited by around three million people. Her memoir The Sober Diaries: How One Woman Stopped Drinking and Started Living was published in 2017 and met with critical acclaim.

Clare’s debut novel The Authenticity Project was inspired by her own experience of uncovering the rather sordid truth about her own seemingly perfect life, and in 2020 it was published in twenty-nine countries.

Clare has given talks at TEDx — “Making Sobriety Less Shameful,” on Radio 4’s “Four Thought,” and in numerous podcast interviews.

Clare lives in Fulham, London, with her husband and three children.