Chloe Davies

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Chloe has spent most of her adult life working in the human rights field. After an MSc in ‘Violence, Conflict and Development’ at the School of Oriental and African Studies, she worked for the legal charity Reprieve, investigating secret prisons in the context of the ‘war on terror.’ Witnessing the struggles of former prisoners after their release, she set up ‘Life after Guantanamo,’ a United Nations funded project supporting men as they rebuilt their lives after torture and imprisonment.   

After training in integrative psychotherapy at the Minster Centre in London, Chloe worked for a decade at ‘Room to Heal’, a therapeutic charity supporting people who had survived violence and persecution to navigate the UK asylum system and withstand the challenges of life in exile. 

Until recently, this work has been all-consuming but in 2020 she left London and her charity work and moved to Warwickshire with her partner, Hanna, and two young sons, setting up private practice there. Writing has always been a passion but only recently has she had the space to engage in it more fully. 

The Turning of the Bones, inspired by her relative Hilda Murrell, an anti-nuclear activist and rose-grower who was murdered in 1984, is her first book.

Published works