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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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Average rating: 3.64 · 91,030 ratings · 12,712 reviews · 13 distinct worksSimilar authors
Swimming Lessons

3.58 avg rating — 25,778 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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Reading Retreat in Tobago with Ella Berthoud (and me!)

A serene balcony view overlooking a calm sea with boats, featuring a hammock, a wicker sofa, and tropical greenery.

I’m very excited to have been invited as a visiting writer (and reader) on a Reading Retreat to Tobago in the Caribbean in May 2027 by bibliotherapist, Ella Berthoud. And this is your invitation to join us! Please direct all enquiries to Ella (ellaberthoud@gmail.com).

Here is what she is offering.

For years, I’ve been dreaming of creating a reading holiday in one of my favourite places in the wo

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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.”
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Richard Dominguez Thank you for the friend


Jodi (on semi-hiatus) 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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