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. She has written three novels: Our Endless Numbered Days, which won the Desmond Elliott Prize, Swimming Lessons, and Bitter Orange, forthcoming October 2018. She has an MA in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of Winchester and lives in Hampshire with her husband and two children.
"Sometimes it’s easy to slot a book into a category or genre: romance, crime, or indeed, mystery. But there are lots of novels which are too slippery for that."