Shakespearean actor, Sydney lifeguard, Scottish newspaper journalist, American high school graduate, playwright and now number one best selling novelist, Iain Blair has packed more than most into his sixty something years. But while millions of regular fans enjoy his 29 published novels, none has ever heard of Iain. Why? Because they only know him as romantic novelist Emma Blair. Clare Higgins is a stage, film and television actress. She is a graduate from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s Clare consolidated her reputation as a dynamic stage actress, both in London and on Broadway, winning three Olivier awards. In 2012, she appeared in Downton Abbey as Mrs Bartlett, and in 2013 she appeared in the Doctor Who mini-episode 'The Night of the Doctor'.