One of our very best contemporary novelists, Claire Fuller’s stunning novel about middle-aged twins whose carefully cultivated existence on the fringes of society begins to unravel following the death of their mother, rightly won her the 2021 Costa Novel Award.

Come and hear about the craft behind this redemptive, unforgettable book and her sharp yet sumptuous prose.

Claire lives in Winchester with her husband and a cat called Alan. They have two grown-up children. Her four novels: Unsettled Ground (which won the Costa Novel Award 2021, and was shortlisted for the 2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction), the critically acclaimed Bitter Orange (longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award), Swimming Lessons (shortlisted for the Encore Prize for second novels, and Livre de Poche Prize in France), and Our Endless Numbered Days (winner of the 2015 Desmond Elliott Prize for debut fiction), have all been published by Fig Tree / Penguin (UK), Tin House (US), and House of Anansi (Canada). They have been translated into more than 20 languages.