Lara Maiklem

Lara Maiklem FSA (born 1971)[1] is a British author, editor and publishing consultant, known for her writing and speaking on mudlarking.

She read sociology and social anthropology at Newcastle University before moving to London where she worked in publishing.

She now lives with her partner and children on the Kent coast[2] During her childhood Maiklem was fascinated by the past in the form of pottery shards, glass bottle stoppers, fossils and clay pipes, which she found in the garden and fields of the family's farm.

[citation needed] The Guardian called it "A fascinating insight into the discarded objects and lost things that wash up on the foreshore".

[5] Literary Review described it as "A lovely, lyrical, gently meandering book, filled with fascinating diversions and detail".