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Claire Fuller

Claire Fuller

Claire Fuller Biography

For first degree, Claire Fuller studied sculpture at Winchester School of Art. She began writing fiction at the age of 40, after many years working as a co-director of a marketing agency, she received a Masters degree (distinction) in Creative and Critical Writing from The University of Winchester.

Claire is the author of Unsettled Ground (2021), winner of the Costa Novel Award and shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, Bitter Orange (2018), Swimming Lessons (2017), which was shortlisted for the Encore Prize for second novels, and Our Endless Numbered Days (2015) which won the Desmond Elliott Prize for debut fiction. She live near Winchester, England with her husband and a cat called Alan, and has two grown-up children.

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