About the author

C. Spencer-Christensen

<p>Claire has a teaching/social work background, participating in school chaplaincy programmes before undertaking&#160;several 'frontline' positions within the public service. That experience brought her face to face with the turmoil and harshness of people's lives and the choices they make to survive in a sometimes heartless environment.&#160;&#160;The characters and&#160;contemporary realism of her novels brings to the fore the significant&#160;impact&#160;an individual believer&#160;can have on a family or a community when led by the 'still small voice' within.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>'More Than Sparrows' is Claire's debut novel, the first of three in the series 'White unto Harvest.'&#160;</p>&#13; &#13; <p>She lives in Australia and is married to Trevor and they have five grown children, their eldest&#160;daughter living in America. Claire lists family time, fellowshipping with believing friends,&#160;photography and bird-watching as favourite pastimes. However, reading in her leafy back garden, suitably sustained by regular cups of coffee and a steady supply of chocolate-coated scorched almonds stands in a class all on its own. She enjoys historical, Victorian and contemporary fiction novels, with&#160; Pride and Prejudice, Exodus, The Source, Anne of Green Gables, Little Women, My Friend Flicka and Black Beauty all continuing&#160;to rate highly. Loves sunflowers and the smell of fresh cut grass, rain falling on dry ground and the sound of magpies heralding the dawning of a new day.</p>&#13; &#13; <p/>&#13; &#13; <p/>&#13; &#13; <p/>&#13; &#13; <p/>&#13; &#13; <p/>&#13; &#13; <p/>&#13; &#13; <p/>&#13; &#13; <p/>&#13; &#13; <p/>&#13; &#13; <p/>&#13; &#13; <p/>&#13; &#13; <p/>&#13; &#13; <p/>&#13; &#13; <p/>&#13; &#13; <p/>