Georgina Clarke

Georgina Clarke creates historical crime fiction about ambitious women navigating class and restricted opportunities. The Dazzle of the Light is set in London in 1920 and follows Ruby Mills, a gifted member of the Forty Thieves shoplifting network, alongside Harriet Littlemore, a journalist eager to move beyond the women's pages. Clarke's historical training informs the collision between Ruby's underworld and Harriet's professional aspirations. The novel draws on the real women-led syndicate and follows Clarke's earlier Lizzie Hardwicke crime series, which is set in the eighteenth century. The two protagonists are drawn together by observation, envy, and competing desires for recognition, making their relationship inseparable from the unequal choices available to them. The Dazzle of the Light shows Georgina Clarke moving into the early twentieth century while retaining her interest in women who use intelligence, performance, and risk to claim authority.