This is the place you’ll find radical honestly about the way life feels. I am a confessional writer - I have written four memoirs which have been Sunday Times bestsellers, and am heading into my fifth - and on this page you will find my essays, videos and podcasts about different things I have experienced in my life, which I hope will help you to understand your own life - and your emotions - more clearly. What goes on inside all of us, everyday, is weird and wild, which is why I find memoir and confessional writing so deeply satisfying. I write memoir rather than novels, as what happens inside me, in my head, everyday in real life is weird and wild enough not to need fictionalising. I write as a way to decipher these feelings. I started this Substack as a space to explore lots of the themes I write about both in tiny captions on my Instagram page and in great depths in my memoirs, including creativity, motherhood, imperfectionism, grief, sobriety, sex, joy and my loathing of cooking supper every night. I think about the emotions inside me, and how to express those emotions, all the time, and I hope this page will become a place to explore and share more of that.

At the moment I am living in America with my three youngest children and my husband, and while I am here I will be writing my next book; I’ll be writing my Substack alongside that, while also recording more conversations about courage and life, with brilliant people for my podcast Tiny Acts of Bravery.

I will post a newsletter here every Tuesday. These essays, videos and thoughts will be for paid subscribers, with occasional posts for free. A new episode of my podcast Tiny Acts of Bravery will drop here on the first Tuesday of every month.

I specifically started this Substack because I wanted to create connections with other people to help all of us try and understand more about what it means to be a human being. I hope that my newsletter and the writing, the notes, the pictures and the thoughts I share on here will make you feel more connected to yourself and your feelings, and in doing so, connect you to other people, too.

Things people have said about my work

Clover Stroud is a force of nature and a woman who is fearless in the face of life and death. A fearless explorer of the human heart, and a writer of incomporable grace and passion. Elizabeth Gilbert

Clover is a remarkable storyteller with an uncanny ability to burrow beneath the surface of the everyday and illuminate the hidden places of the human heart. Dr Sharon Blackie

Her feeling for life, death, place and family makes you want to follow her anywhere.  Julie Myerson

No one writes so vividly, or movingly, about the beauties and perils of family, home, and what it means to belong. Katie Hickman

A true memoirist, Clover Stroud is expert at bringing her reader right to the heart of her longing. Her writing is intimate and warm, honest and generous. Dr Lily Dunn

 The honesty and creativity with which she mines her life and heart are inspirational on so many levels. Lucy Atkins

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