Angela Clare lives in the Calder Valley in West Yorkshire and is Collections Manager for museums in the Halifax area, looking after and curating the items held by the museum service. Angela has published several non-fiction books on historic subjects, including Anne Lister, Shibden Hall and the First World War. She has also written historical-based scripts for performance at a range of national museums and heritage sites. Under the pen name Clara Barley, her first novel, The Moss House, was published by Bluemoose Books in 2019 and was selected by New Writing North for Read Regional 2020/21.