Imogen Clark Books in Order

If you want the book that started it all: Postcards from a Stranger → Postcards at Christmas
If you like sibling drama and buried secrets: The Thing About Clare → An Unwanted Inheritance
If you want strangers, identity, and long hidden truths: Where the Story Starts → The Last Piece
If you prefer wider family sagas across generations: Impossible To Forget → In a Single Moment → A Borrowed Path → In Another Life

Imogen Clark came to publishing later than many novelists, and that late start is part of what makes her story appealing. She did not publish her first book until she was fifty. By then she had already built a career, raised a family, gone back to university, and done enough ordinary life to know that the biggest dramas often happen behind front doors.

Books came first.

Clark has said she was always a reader, and she grew up in a household with one foot in Yorkshire and the other in Lancashire. When she was seventeen, the family moved to Ilkley, and she has lived in Yorkshire ever since. That landscape, and the pull of home, keeps turning up in her fiction.

Her first plan was law, not literature. She studied law at Manchester University and spent years working as a commercial lawyer, including time as a solicitor in Leeds. Later, after leaving legal work to care for her four children, she returned to university part time and earned a BA in English Literature with first class honours.

The turn to fiction began in an unusual way. In 2010, she had a dream that she was writing a novel, woke up, and decided to try. That decision led to years of learning the craft, writing drafts, scrapping work that did not satisfy her, and fitting study and storytelling around school hours and family life.

It was a slow build, not a lightning strike.

Then came Postcards from a Stranger. Clark published it independently in 2017, and within weeks it had drawn the attention of major publishers. Later that year she signed a deal with Amazon Publishing, and the book that started as a self-published leap became the foundation of a full-time writing career. Since then, her novels have sold millions of copies worldwide and topped Kindle charts eight times.

Readers often come to Clark for family secrets, but they stay for the way she handles people. The Thing About Clare turns a mother's final request into a knotty story about siblings, loyalty, and who gets trusted. Where the Story Starts uses an unlikely friendship to dig into identity and belonging. Impossible To Forget widens the lens to lifelong friendship and grief, while In a Single Moment begins with two babies born on a sweltering day in 1976 and asks how one moment can echo for decades.

Her books tend to start with a strong question. What if the story of your mother was wrong? What if a suitcase full of cash turned a close family against itself? What if the past had been shaping your life without your even knowing it? Again and again, she returns to mothers and daughters, siblings, friendship, memory, and the quiet damage caused by secrets kept too long. These are grounded, emotional stories about ordinary people trying to live with what has happened and decide what comes next.

She now lives on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales with her family, walks the nearby countryside, and still loves travel, especially when a trip hands her a setting or idea for a new book. She also writes lighter contemporary fiction as Izzy Bromley. For a writer who started late, she has made up for lost time very quickly.