My first novel, How to be a French Girl, was published by Weatherglass Books in 2023.

3AM Magazine kindly published an extract which you can read here.

“A poisoned love story about class, art and work.” Daisy Hildyard

“How to be a French Girl is a compulsive account of dating apps, doomed ambitions and obsessive desire. It drew me in like a thriller. This is an unnerving and darkly compelling debut.” Naomi Booth

“What a superb debut novel. Rose Cleary writes like Jean Rhys on Bumble - of artistic postures and authentic pain, desperate sex and female abjection. How To Be a French Girl is an engrossing, unflinching tale of youthful unravelling and drastic acting out, with the devil very much in the details.” Rob Doyle

“Rose Cleary’s deft debut novel… swerves from middle-of-the-road to darkly off-piste, with plenty of wit en route.” **** The Telegraph

“…Cleary’s style instead blends the laconic nonchalance of Sally Rooney with the derisive nihilism of Michel Houellebecq, but the result is a voice entirely her own. I don’t know if there is a greater literary authority for the age of truncated attention spans, online dating and the decline of art.” 3AM Magazine