Born in London, M. S. Clary was employed by the BBC as a trainee on leaving school. She studied Social Sciences at Manchester College Oxford, and the LSE as a mature student. Clary has worked in Social Services and later developed own fashion business. Since starting to write, she has won several prizes for short fiction and published first her first novel A Spell in France ( Matador ) in 2017. M. S. Clary is married with two adult sons, and lives in Oxfordshire.