Claire Fuller is the author of five novels. The Memory of Animals will be published in April 2023. Her previous, Unsettled Ground, won the Costa Novel Award 2021 and was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Her first, Our Endless Numbered Days won the 2015 Desmond Elliott Prize, her second, Swimming Lessons was shortlisted for the Encore prize, and her third, Bitter Orange was on the International Dublin Literary Award longlist. Her books have been translated into more than 20 languages. Claire also writes flash fiction and short stories. Many have been published, and she has won the BBC Opening Lines short story competition, and the Royal Academy / Pin Drop prize.

Words Away events:

Zalon: Imagining & Writing Literary Dystopias

Grow Your Own: motivation and inspiration for creative writers

All Is Not What It Seems: How Memory and the Past Drive a Narrative

Twitter: @ClaireFuller2

Instagram: @writerclairefuller

Website: clairefuller.co.uk