When Clare Seal, 30, finally admitted to her husband that they were £27,000 in debt, they began the long journey to get out of the red...
Clare Seal is framed by a laptop screen, as she chats from the bedroom of her rented home in Bath via Zoom. Her husband Phil has been furloughed from his job as a restaurant manager and much of the publicity around her debut book has been cancelled, but Clare is nevertheless relieved. ‘If this pandemic had happened at the beginning of last year, when everything felt out of control, anxiety levels in our house would be very, very high right now,’ she says. ‘It would have been a completely different story.