Growing up living and working on farms instilled Claire with a love of nature and passionate interest in the environment. Claire moved into laboratory work, which she combined with bringing up her five children. She now lives in Dorset, where her busy family life is always full of drama! Hobbies over the years have included raising rare breed chickens and gardening but the one that most captured her imagination, apart from writing, was tropical fish, even keeping a small Walstad tank on her desk at work. Autumn's Attack is Claire’s second published novel and is the second of the Seasons series, the first being Winter's Deception.