Dan Newman
The son of a globetrotting international aid worker, Newman, who was born in England, grew up on St. Lucia in the Caribbean - where The Clearing is set - then in the Kingdoms of Lesotho and Swaziland in Southern Africa, then Canada, then England again, then Australia, and then Well, you get the picture. His education was similarly global; primary school beneath swaying palms in the Caribbean, secondary school in Africa at an international boarding school (witnessing apartheid throttle a...
