About
The Cleanskin
by Laura Bloom
From the dark heart of The Troubles, The Cleanskin is a story of intense human relationships with a cast of flawed and entirely believable characters.
Some days, even Halley can’t find the person she once was. She’s changed her name and no one – least of all her husband and son – knows of her past. No one except Aidan, who turns up one day in her small Australian town and shatters the façade she’s built so carefully.
What the two of them discover, not only change their understanding of what happened back then, it changes everything now.
Laura Bloom deftly goes to the dark heart of The Troubles to tell a story as moving as it is surprising.
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An interview with Liam Pieper from Writers Bloc
“ … there’s a feeling that here in the West we’re ‘post-war’ now. In my fiction I want to explore these assumptions, and expose them. We’re as vulnerable to exploitation as anybody else. We have scars not healed and vulnerable.”
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In conversation with Lisa Brockwell from Floored
“Maybe that’s why middle class women make pretty good terrorists”
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The Female Face of War - an article by Laura Bloom
“I want to write about before, and after. About all of us struggling with the consequences of what we do in the world and bring home, and vice versa, and how ultimately there is no division. Both in the ways we conduct conflict, and the ways we conduct peace.”
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