It tells the story of Peggy Hillcoat, who when she is eight in 1976, spends her summer camping with her father, playing her beloved record of The Railway Children and listening to her mother's grand piano. In 2015 it was selected by Powells as an indispensable book. It was a Richard & Judy Book Club pick for Spring 2016 and a Waterstones Book Club book. It was also nominated for the 2015 Edinburgh First Book Award, long-listed for the 2016 Waverton Good Read Award, and a finalist in the American Booksellers Association's 2016 Indies Best Books Award. Our Endless Numbered Days (2015) won the 2015 Desmond Elliott Prize for debut fiction and was long-listed for the International Dublin Literary Award.Stories and essays of hers have appeared in England's Sunday Express, Litro, HuffPost, and The Telegraph. Unsettled Ground was published in 2021 in the UK, the US and Canada, and was/will be published in a further 14 countries. Bitter Orange, was published in 2018 by Penguin(UK) and in the United States and Canada, and was/will be published in a further 6 countries. Swimming Lessons was published by Penguin(UK) in 2017, and was also published in the United States, Canada and a further 6 countries.

It appeared in translation in a further 12 countries.

Our Endless Numbered Days, the first of her five novels, was published in the UK by Penguin Books, and in the United States ( Tin House) and Canada ( House of Anansi Press). Once they're written, I love rewriting, editing and polishing.' Of the process, she told a fellow writer, 'Getting the words down is torture. She began writing fiction at the age of 40 and holds a master's degree in creative and critical writing from the University of Winchester. Her most recent novel, Unsettled Ground, won the Costa Book Awards Novel Award 2021 and was shortlisted for the 2021 Women's Prize for Fiction Life and career įuller, born and raised in Oxfordshire, studied sculpture at Winchester School of Art in the 1980s, working mainly in wood and stone, before embarking on a marketing career. Bitter Orange, her third, was nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award.

Her second novel, Swimming Lessons, was shortlisted for the 2018 Royal Society of Literature Encore Award. She won the 2015 Desmond Elliott Prize for her first novel, Our Endless Numbered Days, the BBC Opening Lines Short Story Competition in 2014, and the Royal Academy & Pin Drop Short Story Award in 2016. University of Southampton, University of WinchesterĬlaire Fuller (born 9 February 1967 in Oxfordshire) is an English author.

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