Claire Fuller

Claire Fuller is a British novelist born in 1967 in Oxfordshire. She studied sculpture at Winchester School of Art and worked as a manager before publishing her debut novel. Her novels include Our Endless Numbered Days (2015), Swimming Lessons (2017), Bitter Orange (2018), Unsettled Ground (2021), and The Memory Keeper (2023). Our Endless Numbered Days (2015, Fig Tree) is her debut novel, a psychologically harrowing story of Peggy, who at eight is taken by her survivalist father to a remote German forest where they live in total isolation for years, told in alternating timelines from her childhood captivity and her teenage return to London. It won the Desmond Elliott Prize in 2015 and the Saltire First Book Award. Unsettled Ground (2021), about twins whose lives are upended by their mother's death, won the Costa Novel Award. Fuller is known for her psychological intensity, her portrayal of dysfunctional family structures, and her careful attention to the natural world.