Clare Mulley is the award-winning author of The Woman Who Saved the Children: A Biography of Eglantyne Jebb, Founder of Save the Children. Clare first came across Eglantyne when working as a fundraiser at Save the Children in the 1990s and started her biography when she went on maternity leave, thereby showing far less commitment to the cause than Eglantyne who, not liking to get too close to children, never became a mother herself.  

In 2006 Clare gained a distinction for her masters in Social and Cultural History at the University of London. The following year The Woman Who Saved the Children won the Daily Mail Biographers' Club prize. In pleasingly unlikely agreement Gordon Brown has also called it 'a truly brilliant book'. Clare is still a Campaigns Ambassador for Save the Children, and all royalties from the book go to the charity.

Clare has also worked for Sight Savers International and The World Development Movement, and is a Friend of the national charity Standing Together Against Domestic Violence. An enthusiastic clubber, she is also a member of The Social History Society, The Voluntary Action History Society, The Women’s History Network, The Royal Society of Literature, The Biographer’s Club, The Society of Authors, The London Women Writers Salon, English PEN, The Fawcett Society and The National Secular Society.

Having had three very lively daughters, Clare is now working (when she gets the chance) on a group biography of three scandalous and courageous dissident Victorian sisters, and has also contributed to The Arvon Book of Life Writing (Methuen, 2010). She is a seasoned public speaker and literary chair having shared a platform with Claire Tomalin, Diana Athill, Alison Weir, Kate Williams, Alexander Masters and Mark Bostridge among others, and has been interviewed on BBC Radios 4 and 2. She also occasionally writes and blogs for various websites, and papers including The Express and The Church Times, perfect titles for a left-wing atheist.

For all rights inquiries, please contact Clare’s agent Andrew Lownie: www.andrewlownie.co.uk