Beginner’s pluck: French-born writer Claire-Lise Kieffer

Many of the stories featured in 'Tenterhooks' started as submissions on her creative writing fiction class

Claire-Lise Kieffer: 'I’d been writing a lot before but never finishing anything. The course forced me to finish.' Picture: Cal de Bri

Claire-Lise was probably too much into books as a child.

“My parents thought it would do me good to be outside more,” she says.