Claire porta un occhio giornalistico esperto per il dramma umano nella sua narrativa, traendo ispirazione dall'osservazione delle persone nei momenti più significativi delle loro vite. Il suo lavoro esplora le complessità delle esperienze personali e delle correnti sociali, rivelando profonde verità sulla condizione umana. Crea narrazioni avvincenti che approfondiscono temi e relazioni impegnativi. Il suo romanzo d'esordio, radicato in eventi reali, dimostra la sua abilità nel tessere storie accattivanti dalla realtà.
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.