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Claire Fuller is the author of six novels: Hunger and Thirst, forthcoming in May / June 2026; 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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Swimming Lessons

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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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Eleven Novels where the House is a Character too

Bookshelves filled with various titles, featuring a stack of books topped by 'Small Bombs at Dimperley' by Lissa Evans, with a green banner that reads 'Eleven novels where the house is a character too.'

Do you love books where the house is almost as important as the human characters? Me too.

I’ve just finished Small Bomb at Dimperley by Lissa Evans and I loved the mismatched, ugly Dimperley Manor full of taxidermied animals. (I’ll be speaking to Lissa about it at Winchester Books Festival on 19th April 2026 – join us!)

And it got me thinking about other novels where the houses are full of pres

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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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