A decade after her first novel Claudia Carroll is back with her 11th book
The 46-year-old Dub is warm, friendly and full of chat. Perched on a sofa in the lobby of The Westbury Hotel, Carroll isn’t pint-sized, she’s gin and slimline tonic size, almost fragile, with kind eyes and her trademark poker straight blonde hair.
This month, her 11th novel hits the shelves (she’s already 90,000 words through her 12th). After ten years of writing (and 300,000 paperbacks sold) where do the ideas keep coming from? ‘Hospital’ is the short answer for her latest book. After a bad fall that smashed her arm “into smithereens” she needed an operation. While laid up in hospital she was “catching up on trashy magazines” when she came across an article about divorce hotels.
