Hi, I’m Claire.
Perhaps the best way to introduce myself is to tell you what brought me here. I came to writing the way I came to Judaism: not by design, but by need.
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I wasn’t born Jewish or Israeli—just French—and I certainly wasn’t born a writer. After cutting ties with my family at twenty-one, I married into a different culture and found myself in Israel, navigating the space between outsider and insider.
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My life has been shaped by a restless need to see the world from a young age—a drive confirmed during a teenage year in the U.S. that never faded. Though I studied law, my heart belonged to photography. Though I had no interest in religion, I chose conversion. My husband had nothing to do with that decision—in fact, he was quite against it.
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That journey became the basis for my memoir and the reason this site exists.
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A long-term expat, immigrant, or simply a nomad, I’ve lived in nine countries, for now calling London home. Along the way, I’ve worn many hats: professional portrait photographer, gymnastics coach (bars will always be my favorite), founder of a baby-product business, and editor for an expat magazine.
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Writing a book was never the plan. But when I moved to the UK just before the pandemic, I began typing—in confinement.
Where it will lead, I don’t yet know.
