The new novel from the author of the Richard & Judy Book Club Pick Our Endless Numbered Days.
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. 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.
Thrilling, transporting, delicately realised and held together by a
sophisticated sense of suspense . . . more than matches the power
of Fuller's debut . . . Powerful , pleasing and pleasurable.
*Sunday Times*
A compelling portrait of a complicated, unconventional marriage,
and of flawed humanity, with all its secrets, silences and deceits.
Excellent.
*Mail on Sunday*
It's the sharp eye for detail, sometimes bizarre, that makes her
writing stand out . . . A story suffused with the poignancy of
miscommunication between people who love each other, of the things
we can never really know.
*Guardian*
Claire Fuller has captured love in its fullest form, nursed on
betrayal and regret and guilt . . . Swimming Lessons is so
smoothly, beautifully written, and the human failures here are
heartbreaking.
*David Vann*
Bewitching and page-turning . . . an extraordinarily smart and
satisfying read.
*Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife*
With Swimming Lessons, Fuller confirms herself as a writer of
emotional depth, technical skill and sensitive plotting . . . What
Fuller evokes beautifully are the complicated dynamics between
fathers and daughters, sisters, lovers, friends
*Observer*
A deeply moving read, with a mystery that keeps you turning
pages
*Oprah.com*
Evocative, immersive
*Sarah Vaughan, author of Anatomy of a Scandal*
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.
*Sunday Times on Our Endless Numbered Days*
Bewitching...a rivetingly dark tale...spellbinding.
*Sunday Express on Our Endless Numbered Days*
Fuller handles the tension masterfully in this grown-up thriller of
a fairytale, full of clues, questions and intrigue.
*The Times on Our Endless Numbered Days*
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' on Our Endless Numbered Days*
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 on Our Endless Numbered Days*
A debut novel that brings to mind such unlikely bedfellows as
Thoreau's Walden and Emma Donoghue's Room...gripping.
*Guardian on Our Endless Numbered Days*
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