Claire brengt een journalistiek scherp oog voor menselijk drama in haar fictie, geïnspireerd door het observeren van mensen op de meest betekenisvolle momenten van hun leven. Haar werk verkent de complexiteit van persoonlijke ervaringen en maatschappelijke stromingen, en onthult diepe waarheden over de menselijke conditie. Ze creëert meeslepende verhalen die zich verdiepen in uitdagende thema's en relaties. Haar debuutroman, geworteld in ware gebeurtenissen, toont haar vermogen om boeiende verhalen uit de realiteit te weven.
Miss Margaret Finch - a rather old-fashioned young woman - is spying for the mass observation project when she happens across the disgraced Reverend Stiffkey (aka Harold Davidson) who is the subject of a national scandal. Though the two are thrown together by chance, Margaret is determined to discover the truth about the Reverend;
The friends become intimate as they wait together for the Lord to return to their very own Garden of Eden and to begin with the signs all seem to signal that finally Dilys has found the right path. But Dilys is wary of their leader's zealotry and suspicious of those who would seem to influence her to their own end.
Blackpool, 1938. Miss Margaret Finch - a rather demure young woman - has just begun work in a position that relies on her discretion and powers of observation, when her path is crossed by the disgraced Rector of Stiffkey (aka Harold Davidson) who is the subject of a national scandal, and newspaper headlines. Margaret is determined to discover the truth about Davidson; is he a maligned hero or an exploiter of the vulnerable? But her own troubles are never far away, and Margaret's fear that the history is about to repeat itself means she needs to uncover the truth urgently.