Claire Fuller was born in Oxfordshire, England, in 1967. She gained a degree in sculpture from Winchester School of Art, but went on to have a long career in marketing and didn't start writing until she was forty. Swimming Lessons is her second novel. Her first novel, Our Endless Numbered Days, won the Desmond Elliott Prize. She has an MA in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of Winchester and lives in Hampshire with her husband and two children.
'Extraordinary...From the opening sentence it is gripping...Fuller
writes with a singing simplicity that finds beauty amid the
terror...might well have you crying out for more.'
*The Sunday Times*
Fuller handles the tension masterfully in this grown-up thriller of
a fairytale, full of clues, questions and intrigue.
*The Times*
Bewitching...a rivetingly dark tale...spellbinding.
*Sunday Express*
Fuller's twisted tale is compulsive, treading the fine line between
charming and sinister. With its disturbing twist, Our Endless
Numbered Days could well become a classic.
*Stylist, 'Book Wars'*
Rewardingly unsettling...as warped and sinister as any Brothers
Grimm fairytale, this tautly written, tense novel is brilliant at
evoking both the bewitching beauty of its setting - and its
inherent dangers...haunting, suspenseful and deftly
written...memorably chilling.
*Metro*
Straightaway I was intrigued to find out where this novel was
heading... Fuller evokes the natural world's beauty and
brutality.
*The Independent*
A debut novel that brings to mind such unlikely bedfellows as
Thoreau's Walden and Emma Donoghue's Room...gripping.
*Guardian*
I tore through it, found it utterly gripping and loved its hypnotic
atmosphere. The beauty and pleasures of the natural world pitted
against the unravelling horrors of isolation and insanity worked
brilliantly.
*Esther Freud*
A remarkable first novel, I was much impressed by the conviction of
the child's eye view, the vivid climate and the power of the
narrative.
*Penelope Lively*
Our Endless Numbered Days is suspenseful, utterly riveting, and as
dark as midnight in the forest.
*Rebecca Hunt (author of Everland and Mr Chartwell)*
Excellent...I loved the combination of Peggy/Punzel's absolutely
authentic child's precision for detail and her day-to-day
matter-of-factness (often very funny) with the strangeness of the
world she inhabited...very powerfully imagined... absolutely
compelling.
*Morag Joss (author of The Night Following)*
Narrated with warmth and compassion, Our Endless Numbered Days is a
haunting and beautiful novel. I loved every page.
*Daniel Clay (author of Broken)*
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