1.
Where
were you born?
Durham,
a gorgeous city in the North East of England in the UK. It has a castle and a
cathedral and one of the most beautiful university buildings in England.
2.
What
is something unique/quirky about you?
I
love to sing! Usually showtunes. Most of my spare money is spent on theatre
tickets, and I love to watch musicals. I don’t sing along while I’m watching
them, but when I’m driving around in my car, it’s rarely silent!
3.
Who
is your hero and why?
J.K.
Rowling. She’s female, came from difficult circumstances, wrote one of my
favourite series of all time. And she uses her fame and success for good.
4.
How
long have you been writing?
Ever
since I was a child, (I have a book of poems and stories that I wrote when I
was around 8 years old somewhere in my attic) but I’ve been writing seriously
(and publishing) since 2013.
5.
When
did you first consider yourself a writer?
That’s
a tricky one. When I published my second book, perhaps? When I started to sell
books? Some days, I’m still not sure that I deserve the title!
6.
What
literary pilgrimages have you gone on?
Last
year I went to Edinburgh in Scotland and visited The Elephant House Café where
J.K. Rowling is supposed to have written some of the Harry Potter books.
7.
What
inspired you to write this book?
Climate
change? I feel like the world has seemed to flood more and more often as I’ve
grown older. I certainly don’t remember there being so many incidences of
large-scale flooding on the news when I was a child. It inspired me to imagine
a world which was largely covered by water, where inhabitable land was
extremely limited, and the challenges this would create.
8.
How
did you come up with the title of the novel?
I
wanted a title which was ambiguous, linking to water but also with a deeper
meaning. In Book One, the ‘flow’ of Quin’s life is about to change
dramatically, so I wanted to try and hint at this in the title.
9.
If
your book was made into a film, who would you like to play the lead?
Maya
Hawke. I loved her portrayal of Jo March in the 2017 TV adaptation in Little
Women.
10. Tell us an interesting or unknown fact
about your series.
What
no one knows about the titles of The Flow Series is that, once I had the design
for the first cover, they all had to be a single word which was six letters or
less. The unusual vertical title (which I love) meant that there was no way of
having lengthier titles. My cover designed warned me of this with Flow, so I
knew what I was signing up for!
Flow
The Flow Series Book 1
by Clare Littlemore
Genre: YA Dystopian Fiction
A flooded future. A relationship torn apart.
When 16-year old Quin's best friend Harper fails The Beck's assessment, will she ever see her again?
Regular appraisals are part of life in The Beck, a walled-in community constantly threatened by floodwaters. But when the shocking results of the most recent test are revealed, Quin knows her world is about to change forever.
Wrenched from Agric, where she has lived and worked for years, Quin finds herself thrown into the unfamiliar Patrol Sector. Yearning for her lost friend, struggling to adjust to her new surroundings, she begins to question the society she thought she knew.
And then she meets the mysterious Cam, who seems willing to break the rules for her. Determined to find Harper, Quin enlists his help. But when she discovers the horrifying truth, it might just destroy her.
If you devour fast-paced, addictive stories with compelling characters who inhabit intriguing futures, you’ll love The Flow Series.
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Break
The Flow Series Book 2
Broken.
It’s been three months since Quin transferred to Patrol and discovered the terrifying truth about the community she lives in. Citizens of The Beck are disposable and those in charge are capable of terrible cruelty. Vowing to protect those around her, Quin has joined the Resistance. But she knows she is risking everything.
Rebellion of any kind must be secretive and clever. Gathering enough people to fight seems like an impossible task. When those closest to her are directly threatened, Quin knows she has to act. But time is running out. Governance will stop at nothing to protect the world it has worked to build. In the end, Quin must decide how far she is prepared to go to rescue the ones she loves.
Break is the second in the Flow series, which follows Quin as she struggles to carve out a future in the harsh regime she was born into.
Drift
The Flow Series Book 3
She wanted freedom. But freedom comes at a price.
Quin believed that a life away from The Beck would make her happy. But when a cruel twist of fate forces her to leave sooner than planned, she struggles to come to terms with her new reality. Haunted by memories of the people she left behind, she finds herself wishing she was back in Patrol, with Cam by her side.
Cut off from The Beck, the escapees carve out a new existence on a small island. Tentative bonds are formed, but as disputes surface and rebellion is threatened, Quin quickly realises that their new home isn’t the sanctuary she had imagined. And when one of her fellow citizens is willing to go to desperate measures to save those he loves, he puts the entire community in danger.
As they hatch a daring plan to save themselves, Quin is faced with a terrible choice: protect her friends or follow her heart.
Drift is the third in the Flow series, which follows Quin as she battles to forge a new life in unfamiliar territory without the man she has come to depend on.
Quell
The Flow Series Book 4
One battle. One chance to change the future.
Having survived the deadly virus that endangered her new community, Quin is devastated to learn that the same sickness threatens The Beck. With Adams and his Shadow Patrol in charge, Cam and her friends are in mortal danger.
The rebels know they’re not strong enough to take on The Beck’s government alone. The only way to succeed is to join forces with The Ridge. But their alliance is built on tenuous threads: one wrong move could destroy their hopes forever.
As Quin steels herself for the final battle, a shocking revelation leaves her wondering what she is willing to sacrifice in the name of freedom.
Quell is the fourth and final book in the Flow series, which follows Quin and her allies into the ultimate battle to save The Beck.
Clare Littlemore is a young adult dystopian and sci-fi author who thrives on fictionally destroying the world in as many ways as she possibly can.
She was born in Durham, in the UK. Her parents were both teachers, and she grew up in a world surrounded by books. She has worked for most of her life as a teacher of English at various high schools in England, where she has shared her passion for books with hundreds of teenagers. In 2013 she began writing her own fiction, got totally hooked, and hasn’t stopped since.
Clare lives in Warrington in the North West of England with her husband and two children.
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