She wrote biographies and historical fiction for children and young adults, school stories, stage plays which she sometimes helped produce, and more.

[2] They were living in Wheathampstead by the time Clare (sometimes Clara) Drury was eleven[3] and this was still the family home in 1925.

[5] Towards the end of the First World War she served as a driver in the parachute section of the Women's Royal Air Force.

[6] On 21 February 1925 she married Theo Chandos Hoskyns-Abrahall (1896–1975), who worked in the Colonial Service, mainly in Nigeria.

In 1953 newspapers reported her shouting repeatedly at a political meeting because she felt the speaker "was saying such horrible things about England".

Not only was it re-published several times in English, it was translated into other languages too, including German (Ein Mädchen macht Karriere) and Dutch.