Clodagh Chapman is the author of radio plays, short stories, and 9 novels, published by such leading houses has Piatkus, Headline, Fontana, Paragon, and Weidenfeld. She has worked as a land-girl, written propaganda for the war-time Ministry of Information, and worked as a school teacher. She has bred show ponies, been a Morris Dancer and played in a folk band. She has two children and six grandchildren, and with her husband lives part of the year in Suffolk and part in Brittany. As a mature student with the Open University she gained the degrees of BA and MA in the humanities. Her research for the MA uncovered the history of a catastrophic explosion in her local Suffolk town. This she has used as a background to her historical novel, A Very Curious and Capricious Agent.