Claire Fuller

Claire Fuller was born in Oxfordshire, England, in 1967. She gained a degree in sculpture from Winchester School of Art, but went on to have a long career in marketing and didn't start writing until she was forty. She has written four previous novels: Unsettled Ground , which in 2021 won the Costa Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, Our Endless Numbered Days , which won the Desmond Elliott Prize, Swimming Lessons , which was shortlisted for the RSL Encore Award,...See more

Claire Fuller was born in Oxfordshire, England, in 1967. She gained a degree in sculpture from Winchester School of Art, but went on to have a long career in marketing and didn't start writing until she was forty. She has written four previous novels: Unsettled Ground , which in 2021 won the Costa Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, Our Endless Numbered Days , which won the Desmond Elliott Prize, Swimming Lessons , which was shortlisted for the RSL Encore Award, and Bitter Orange . She has an MA in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of Winchester and lives in Hampshire with her husband. See less