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Claire Fuller is the author of six novels: Hunger and Thirst; The Memory of Animals; Unsettled Ground, which won the Costa Novel Award 2021 and was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction; Our Endless Numbered Days, which won the 2015 Desmond Elliott prize; Swimming Lessons, shortlisted for the Encore Prize; and Bitter Orange longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. ...more

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Claire Fuller Hello! I'm so pleased you enjoyed it! The next book I'm writing isn't a sequel - I think I need to let the events in Our Endless Numbered Days stew fo…moreHello! I'm so pleased you enjoyed it! The next book I'm writing isn't a sequel - I think I need to let the events in Our Endless Numbered Days stew for a while. But I wouldn't rule a sequel out in the future, just no plans for it yet.
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Average rating: 3.64 · 91,987 ratings · 12,883 reviews · 13 distinct works • Similar authors
Swimming Lessons

3.58 avg rating — 25,832 ratings — published 2017 — 39 editions
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Bitter Orange

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Unsettled Ground

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Our Endless Numbered Days

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The Memory of Animals

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Hunger and Thirst

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Nine Coming-of-Age Novels

A stack of nine recommended nuanced coming-of-age novels atop a wooden step ladder, with a bookshelf filled with various books in the background.

Who doesn’t love a great coming-of-age story? We’ve all been through that period of our lives and it’s often the most vivid, no matter our age. It’s when we fully become ourselves and interact with the world on our terms. It’s a time of firsts. Perhaps a first kiss, first love, first death; the first time that we understand that everyone, including ourselves, are fallible.

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“Writing does not exist unless there is someone to read it, and each reader will take something different from a novel, from a chapter, from a line.”
― Claire Fuller, Swimming Lessons

“My father was fond of saying 'If you own too many possessions sooner or later they start owning you.”
― Claire Fuller, Our Endless Numbered Days

“Dates only make us aware of how numbered our days are, how much closer to death we are for each one we cross off. From now on, Punzel, we're going to live by the sun and the seasons.' He picked me up and spun me around, laughing.'Our days will be endless.”
― Claire Fuller, Our Endless Numbered Days

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Jodi Claire, I was so happy to hear you'd won the 2021 Costa Novel Award for Unsettled Ground!! WOW - congratulations! What a huge honour, and so very well-deserved! You must be very happy; I'm sure all your friends and fans are very happy for you, too. Way to go!!📘🥇📚🍾👑🎈🎉🎊🎆🙌🥳


Hayden Casey hi, Claire! thanks for accepting my friend request! you're cool!


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