Note To Boy
‘A terrific first novel. Pulled off that incredibly tricky trick of introducing me to two characters… then left me bereft when I had to bid them farewell at the end.’ Paul Mayhew-Archer, The Vicar of Dibley
‘Warm, funny, life-enhancing, totally original and, above all, moving… We’re thrown into the story and a maelstrom of emotions from page 1. By page 2, I was hooked.’ Mike Coleman, TV and radio scriptwriter
‘The sparks which fly between an embittered relic of the Swinging London fashion scene and a young man with nothing to lose as they gradually reveal their pasts and develop a relationship are both funny and tragic.’ – Andrew Crofts, author.
Eloise is an erratic, faded fashionista. Bradley is a glum but wily teenager. Together, they make an unlikely team.
In need of help to write her racy 1960s memoirs, the former ‘shock frock’ fashion guru tolerates his common ways. Unable to remember his name, she calls him Boy. Desperate to escape a brutal home life, he puts up with her bossiness and confusing notes.
Both guard secrets. How did she lose her fame and fortune? What’s he scheming – beyond getting his hands on her bank card? And just what’s hidden in that mysterious locked room?
Sue Clark
In a varied writing career, Sue Clark has penned BBC Radio and TV comedy scripts for the likes of David Jason, Lenny Henry, and Tracey Ullman, as well as contributing to newspapers, magazines, trade journals, and guidebooks, as a journalist, copywriter, PR, and editor.
But she had never done what she had always longed to do: write comic fiction.
That is, until she was able to give up the old nine-to-five, take a creative writing course with Oxford University, join a writing group and – at last! – unshackle her imagination and let her love for comedy roam free.
The result, her debut comic novel, Note to Boy, (‘She wants her celebrity life back. He just wants a life.’) was published in 2020, gaining a Pencraft award. Her second, A Novel Solution, is published through SRL.
Sue Clark believes no story, no matter how tragic, isn’t enhanced by an injection of comedy. And likewise, no story, no matter how comic, isn’t enriched by an injection of pathos. Her aim: to give the reader that winning combination of laughter, laced with a few tears, heart, and humour.
Sue lives with her forbearing husband, her grown-up children, and grand-daughter near – but not too near, in the sort of apparently sleepy Oxfordshire market town that inspires deadly dramas like Midsomer Murders.
