Hints and tips:
...As a child she whipped up tiny outfits for her dolls, instructed and encouraged by her grandmother....
...“When something heavy, like a hammer, is dropped on to a wooden floor it leaves a mark,” says Jeremy Dearling, warden of the Orthodox Church....
...My personal style is somewhere between a Buckaroo Russian doll and a car-boot- sale pile. I like oversized shapes and I tend to wear a lot of layers until I can’t add any more....
...“I spend most of my time with millennials,” Clair confides. “They have no problem with a non-binary person.”...
...Her mother, Clair Sims, was a concert pianist who relinquished her career in order to raise her four children, becoming a London tour guide and piano teacher to pay the bills....
...One character has “the humour of a pear” and a relationship is like “a doll made from nothing but opposable parts”....
...Another, not so incidental reason, was to raise money for the Fondation Clair Bois, which is devoted to the care and careers of the severely handicapped in Geneva, and I mention with gratitude the sponsorship...
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