Claire Fuller

1967–

Claire Fuller is an English novelist, born in Oxfordshire in 1967. She trained as a sculptor at Winchester School of Art, working mainly in wood and stone, and then spent many years in marketing, latterly as co-director of an agency. She began writing fiction at forty and later took a master's in creative and critical writing at the University of Winchester. Her debut, Our Endless Numbered Days, won the Desmond Elliott Prize in 2015; Swimming Lessons and Bitter Orange followed. Unsettled Ground (2021), about middle-aged twins living on the margins of rural England, won the Costa Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Women's Prize. She lives in Hampshire.

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