Born in the motherland of Yorkshire and then migrating south to the kingdom of Wessex, Clare Macnaughton dedicated her life to hedonism, sailing, beaches and sunshine, for as long as possible. Then she did some other stuff before she ghost wrote a battlefield memoir called 'Immediate Response', in-conjunction with a serving Royal Marine Major, published by Penguin. In September 09, in the second week of sales it entered at number 9 in The Sunday Times hardback, non-fiction, top 10 bestseller list.