Readers may remember the Indie story from July 2023 about a debut novel by former Herts and Essex High School student Claire Daverley – and with the paperback version of Talking at Night out now, the Indie has a copy to be won. Claire – whose first successful foray into literature was earning her writer’s badge at Brownies in Bishop’s Stortford – has been scribbling away in notebooks, and hiding them, since she was about six. She was working in publisher Penguin Random House’s marketing department when she anonymously sent the first few chapters of Talking at Night to an agent. “I couldn’t bel…
