About the author
Clare Leslie Hall is a British novelist who has also worked as a journalist. Her 2025 novel Broken Country brought together a rural love story, a murder investigation, and a courtroom structure across the 1950s and 1960s.
Broken Country grew from Hall's interest in the beauty and brutality of agricultural life and in how an old attachment changes a marriage already shaped by bereavement. The linked Wikipedia article is the novel's topic page because no dedicated English biography is available.
Where to start
Start with Broken Country, the Dorset novel that moves between first love, farm life, family grief, and the murder trial created when the past returns.
