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Claire Fuller is the author of five novels: The Memory of Animals published in the UK
and forthcoming (June 23) in the US and Canada. Her previous, Unsettled Ground, which won the Costa Novel Award 2021, and was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction; Our Endless Numbered Days, which won the 2015 Desmond Elliott prize; Swimming Lessons, shortlisted for the Encore Prize; and Bitter Orange longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. ...more

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	Swimming Lessons 3.58 avg rating — 24,913 ratings — published 2017 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bitter Orange 3.58 avg rating — 19,200 ratings — published 2018 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Our Endless Numbered Days 3.67 avg rating — 17,123 ratings — published 2015 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unsettled Ground 3.78 avg rating — 16,187 ratings — published 2021 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Memory of Animals 3.59 avg rating — 4,966 ratings — published 2023 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	After the Fall - Tales of the Apocalypse by Kelly Gardner (Editor), Robert Holtom, Paul S. Huggins (欧宝娱乐 Author) 3.61 avg rating — 155 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bard: The Short Story Collection by Claire Fuller (欧宝娱乐 Author), Chigozie Obioma (欧宝娱乐 Author), Marina Lewycka 3.03 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Box of Stars Beneath the Bed: 2016 National Flash-Fiction Day Anthology (National Flash Fiction Day Anthologies Book 5) by Calum Kerr (欧宝娱乐 Author) (Editor), Nuala N铆 Chonch煤ir (Editor), Santino Prinzi (欧宝娱乐 Author) (Editor) 3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House, Unsettled Ground, Transcendent Kingdom 3 Books Collection Set by Cherie Jones, Claire Fuller (欧宝娱乐 Author), Yaa Gyasi (欧宝娱乐 Author) 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nuestros d铆as ser谩n infinitos by Claire Fuller (欧宝娱乐 Author), Eva Cosculluela (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Flesh by David Szalay is such an unusual and clever novel. The main character, Hungarian Istv谩n has low emotional intelligence - most of the time we don't know what he's thinking and neither does he. Things happen to him and he goes along with them - ...more
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I LOVED this. Penelope Wells is a precocious fourteen-year-old when we first meet her in the 1950s in her father's hotel in the south of France. She's writing an 'Anthology of Hates' which she soon tears up and starts writing a novel - this novel. He ...more
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It was wonderful to revisit Bob Burgess, Olive Kitteridge, and Lucy Barton - all together in one novel and to catch up with their lives. There are lots of characters and voices in this novel (including one authorial voice - Elizabeth Strout herself?) ...more
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Claire Fuller made a comment in the group 欧宝娱乐 Librarians Group — Book with this cover never published topic " I would be very grateful if a librarian could remove this edition of Swimming Lessons by Claire Fuller: /book/show/5... The ve ...more "
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“Writing does not exist unless there is someone to read it, and each reader will take something different from a novel, from a chapter, from a line.”
― Claire Fuller, Swimming Lessons

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“My father was fond of saying 'If you own too many possessions sooner or later they start owning you.”
― Claire Fuller, Our Endless Numbered Days

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“Dates only make us aware of how numbered our days are, how much closer to death we are for each one we cross off. From now on, Punzel, we're going to live by the sun and the seasons.' He picked me up and spun me around, laughing.'Our days will be endless.”
― Claire Fuller, Our Endless Numbered Days

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February BoTM Side Read Nominations ~ 1st Poll

Top 5 Books move onto Final round

A Spark of Light

by Jodi Picoult

13 votes, 26.5%

To All the Boys I've Loved Before

by Jenny Han

11 votes, 22.4%

The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers

by Maxwell King

7 votes, 14.3%

Anatomy of a Scandal

by Sarah Vaughan

6 votes, 12.2%

The Wangs vs. the World

by Jade Chang

4 votes, 8.2%

The History of Love

by Nicole Krauss

4 votes, 8.2%

The Westing Game

by Ellen Raskin

2 votes, 4.1%

The Sisters Chase

by Sarah Healy

1 vote, 2.0%

Rainbirds

by Clarissa Goenawan

1 vote, 2.0%

Swimming Lessons

by Claire Fuller

0 votes, 0.0%

49 total votes

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