Claire Fuller

Un padre. Una hija. Un bosque impenetrable. Una historia de supervivencia extrema, una fábula oscura sobre el amor, la obsesión y el poder destructivo de la mentira. Entre la ternura y el terror, Claire Fullerconstruye un thriller psicologico inquietante, donde la frontera entre el juego y la realidad se desdibuja hasta volverse insoportable.Es el verano de 1976. Peggy Hillcoat tiene ocho años y pasa los dias con su padre, James, un hombre obsesionado con la supervivencia que ha convertido el sotano de su casa en un refugio nuclear. Una noche, sin previo aviso, James secuestra a su hija y se la lleva a una cabaña en medio de un bosque inmenso. Alejados de toda señal de vida humana, James convence a Peggy de que el mundo entero ha sido destruido. Juntos aprenden a subsistir: construyen trampas para cazar, se lavan en el rio, almacenan alimentos. Los inviernos son largos y crueles; los veranos, fugaces. En su aislamiento, incluso fabrican un piano de madera que no produce sonido alguno. Durante años, Peggy vive en esa cabaña con su padre, sin cuestionar su realidad. Hasta que, un dia, encuentra unas botas. El descubrimiento la empujara a una busqueda desesperada que revelara los secretos de su encierro y la verdad sobre la ultima noche que paso con James. ¿Que ocurrio realmente en aquel bosque? ¿Como logro escapar? Y, sobre todo, ¿por que ha vuelto sin el?Con esta impactante primera novela, Claire Fuller (Tierra inestable,La memoria de los animales) se alzo con el prestigioso Desmond Elliot Prize. Un relato perturbador sobre la fragilidad de la infancia, la manipulacion y las cicatrices de una vida marcada por el engaño.CRITICAExtraordinaria. Apasionante desde la primera frase. Fuller escribe con una sencillez cantarina que encuentra la belleza en medio del terror.The Sunday TimesMagnifica. Impresionante la conviccion de la mirada infantil, el clima vivido y la fuerza de la narracion.Penelope LivelyTiene la combinacion ganadora de un narrador poco fiable y un final impactante.Publishers WeeklyImpactante y sutil, brillante y hermosa, equilibrada y elegante. Recuerda a los primeros trabajos de Ian McEwan por la delicadeza de su prosa y la forma en que combina matices de lo mas oscurosJurado del Desmond Elliot PrizeUna novela de debut que recuerda a compañeros de cama tan improbables como elWalden de Thoreau yLa habitacion de Emma Donoghue... apasionanteThe Guardian

1976: Peggy Hillcoat is eight. She spends her summer camping with her father, playing her beloved record of The Railway Children and listening to her mother''s grand piano, but her pretty life is about to change. Her survivalist father, who has been stockpiling provisions for the end which is surely coming soon, takes her from London to a cabin in a remote European forest. There he tells Peggy the rest of the world has disappeared. Her life is reduced to a piano which makes music but no sound, a forest where all that grows is a means of survival. And a tiny wooden hut that is Everything. She is not seen again for another nine years. 1985: Peggy has returned to the family home. But what happened to her in the forest? And why - and how - has she come back now?

The second novel from the author of Our Endless Numbered Days, which won the 2015 Desmond Elliott Prize and was a 2016 Richard and Judy Book Club Pick.Gil''s wife, Ingrid has been missing, presumed drowned, for twelve years.A possible sighting brings their children, Nan and Flora, home. Together they begin to confront the mystery of their mother. Is Ingrid dead? Or did she leave? And do the letters hidden within Gil''s books hold the answer to the truth behind his marriage, a truth hidden from everyone including his own children?

This Book is Winner Of The Desmond Elliott Prize 2015. "Fuller handles the tension masterfully in this grown-up thriller of a fairytale, full of clues, questions and intrigue." (The Times). "Extraordinary...From the opening sentence it is gripping." (Sunday Times). 1976: Peggy Hillcoat is eight. She spends her summer camping with her father, playing her beloved record of The Railway Children and listening to her mother's grand piano, but her pretty life is about to change. Her survivalist father, who has been stockpiling provisions for the end which is surely coming soon, takes her from London to a cabin in a remote European forest. There he tells Peggy the rest of the world has disappeared. Her life is reduced to a piano which makes music but no sound, a forest where all that grows is a means of survival. And a tiny wooden hut that is everything.

The second novel from the author of Our Endless Numbered Days, which won the 2015 Desmond Elliott Prize and was a 2016 Richard and Judy Book Club Pick. 'Gil Coleman looked down from the window and saw his dead wife standing on the pavement below.' Gil's wife, Ingrid has been missing, presumed drowned, for twelve years. A possible sighting brings their children, Nan and Flora, home. Together they begin to confront the mystery of their mother. Is Ingrid dead? Or did she leave? And do the letters hidden within Gil's books hold the answer to the truth behind his marriage, a truth hidden from everyone including his own children?

Twins Jeanie and Julius have always been different. At 51 years old, they still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation and poverty. Their rented cottage is simultaneously their armour against the world and their sanctuary. Inside its walls they make music, in its garden they grow (and sometimes kill) everything they need for sustenance.But when Dot dies suddenly, threats to their livelihood start raining down. At risk of losing everything, Jeanie and her brother must fight to survive in an increasingly dangerous world as their mother's secrets unfold, putting everything they thought they knew about their lives at stake. This is a thrilling novel of resilience and hope, of love and survival, that explores with dazzling emotional power how the truths closest to us are often hardest to see.

A stunning piece of speculative fiction The iA haunting novel about love, survival and everything in between ... one to get excited about Stylist, Best Modern Dystopia---But she isnt here, no one is here. And I have a terror of being alone, in this building, in London, in the world.Neffy is a young woman running away from grief and guilt, and the one big mistake that has derailed her career. When a debilitating new virus sweeps across the globe, volunteering in a vaccine trial offers her a way to make up for her past. But then, the virus mutates, and the future she had dreamed for herself is gone.As the London streets outside the medical unit fall silent, and food begins to run out, Neffy must decide where safety lies. Might she find solace by revisiting her own heady memories of the past? Can she trust the strangers trapped inside with her - despite her growing suspicions? Or is her best chance of a future to be found in the terrifyingly unknown world outside?Haunting and compelling, The Memory of Animals is a novel about freedom and captivity, survival and sacrifice, and what we cling to when everything else has been taken away, from the Costa Award-winning, Womens Prize-shortlis

FROM THE COSTA AWARD WINNING WOMEN S PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF UNSETTLED GROUND A stunning piece of speculative fiction The i A haunting novel about love survival and everything in between One to get excited about Stylist Best Modern Dystopia Humans are useless at learning from their mistakes We just have to keep making new plans When Neffy wakes up from an uneasy sleep in a hospital bed nothing is as it should be There is no food and nobody to tend to her The city streets outside her window have fallen silent She doesn t know it yet but a debilitating new virus is sweeping the globe and the world will never be the same again Feverish confused and wary of the strangers trapped inside with her Neffy finds solace in her own memories of the past even the memories of the mistakes that led her here But as the days turn into weeks it is clear that Neffy will have to make a choice How do you choose between a past that has already disappeared forever and a future you can t begin to imagine Unsettling moving and thoughtful with horror lurking at the edges this is a subtle elegant novel Claire Fuller is a huge talent Lucy Atkins author of Magpie Lane Compulsive and thoroughly convincing Terrific Clare Chambers author of Small Pleasu

A compulsive page-turner. Fuller creates an atmosphere of simmering menace with all the assurance of a latter-day Daphne du Maurier' The TimesFrances Jellico is dying. A man who calls himself the vicar visits, hoping to extract a deathbed confession. He wants to know what really happened that fateful summer of 1969, when Frances - tasked with surveying a dilapidated country house - first set eyes on the glamorous bohemian couple, Cara and Peter. She recalls the relationship they forged through sweltering days, lavish dinners and elaborate lies, and the Judas hole through which she would spy on the couple.Were the signs there right from the beginning?Or was it impossible to avoid the crime that split their lives open like rotten fruit?***'Bewitching, otherworldly . . . full of dark foreboding. Claire Fuller is a dazzling storyteller' Scotsman'An atmospheric page-turner that speeds us towards a bloody climax of shocks and surprises' Irish Times'Sinister and suspenseful, this gothic novel simmers with guilt, lust and envy' Mail on Sunday'Multi-layered, lush, twisty and brilliantly clever' Sunday Mirror

A twisty, thorny, darkly atmospheric page turner about loneliness and belonging' Gabriel Tallent, author of My Absolute Darling 'Incredibly atmospheric, vivid and intriguing. I had to keep reminding myself that I wasn't reading a forgotten classic' Emma Healey From the author of the prize-winning Our Endless Numbered Days comes a suspenseful story about deception, sexual obsession and atonement From the attic of a dilapidated English country house, she sees them - Cara first: dark and beautiful, clinging to a marble fountain of Cupid, and Peter, an Apollo. It is 1969 and they are spending the summer in the rooms below hers while Frances writes a report on the follies in the garden for the absent American owner. But she is distracted. Beneath a floorboard in her bathroom, she discovers a peephole which gives her access to her neighbours' private lives. To Frances' surprise, Cara and Peter are keen to spend time with her. It is the first occasion that she has had anybody to call a friend, and before long they are spending every day together: eating lavish dinners, drinking bottle after bottle of wine, and smoking cigarettes till the ash piles up on the crumbling furniture. Frances is dazzled. But as the hot summer rolls lazily on, it becomes clear that not everything is right between Cara and Peter. The stories that Cara tells don't quite add up - and as Frances becomes increasingly entangled in the lives of the glamorous, hedonistic couple, the boundaries between truth and lies, right and wrong, begin to blur. Amid the decadence of that summer, a small crime brings on a bigger one: a crime so terrible that it will brand all their lives forever.

Neffy is a young woman running away from grief and guilt and the one big mistake that has cost her her career. When she answers the call to volunteer in a controlled vaccine trial, it offers her a way to pay off her many debts and, perhaps, to make up for the past.But when the London streets below her window fall silent, and all external communications cease, only Neffy and four other volunteers remain in the unit. With food running out, and a growing sense that the strangers she is with may be holding back secrets, Neffy has questions that no-one can answer. Does safety lie inside or beyond the unit? And who, or what is out there?

Lorsque l'on vit en marge de la société, il suffit d'un pas pour basculer. Les jumeaux Julius et Jeanie ont toujours su qu’ils étaient différents. À 51 ans, ils habitent encore avec leur mère, Dot, à

Lorsque lon vit en marge de la société, il suffit dun pas pour basculer. Les jumeaux Julius et Jeanie ont toujours su qu’ils étaient différents. À 51 ans, ils habitent encore avec leur mère, Dot,

WINNER OF THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2021'Her strongest yet... a powerful, beautiful novel that shows us our land as it really is: a place of shelter and cruelty, innocence and experience' THE TIMES__________________________________________________________________________When you live on the edge of society, it only takes one step to fall between the cracks Twins Jeanie and Julius have always been different from other people. At 51 years old, they still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation and poverty.Inside the walls of their old cottage they make music, and in the garden they grow (and sometimes kill) everything they need for sustenance. But when Dot dies suddenly, threats to their livelihood start raining down. Jeanie and Julius would do anything to preserve their small sanctuary against the perils of the outside world, even as their mother's secrets begin to unravel, putting everything they thought they knew about their lives at stake.

À 39 ans, Frances Jellico s’apprête à vivre son premier été de liberté. Enfin délivrée de son tyran de mère, Frances a été missionnée pour faire l’état des lieux du domaine de Lyntons. Jadis somptueu

Ingrid a 20 ans et des projets plein la tête quand elle rencontre Gil Coleman, professeur de littérature à l’université. Faisant fi de son âge et de sa réputation de don Juan, elle l’épouse et s’inst

Il n’a pas l’air d’un menteur », pense Peggy Hillcoat en regardant la photo de son père. Elle a été prise l’été de ses huit ans. Il avait transformé la cave en abri antiatomique et discutait de fin d

FROM THE COSTA AWARD-WINNING, WOMENS PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF UNSETTLED GROUNDFrances Jellico is dying. A man who calls himself the vicar visits, hoping to extract a deathbed confession. He wants to know what really happened that fateful summer of 1969, when Frances - tasked with surveying a dilapidated country house - first set eyes on the glamorous bohemian couple, Cara and Peter. She recalls the relationship they forged through sweltering days, lavish dinners and elaborate lies, and the Judas hole through which she would spy on the couple.Were the signs there right from the beginning?Or was it impossible to avoid the crime that split their lives open like rotten fruit?Compulsive A latter-day Daphne du Maurier THE TIMESClever, compelling A rewarding slow burn PAULA HAWKINSBewitching, otherworldly full of dark foreboding. Claire Fuller is a dazzling storyteller SCOTSMANSinister and suspenseful, this gothic novel simmers with guilt, lust and envy MAIL ON SUNDAYA darkly smouldering, superior psychological thriller DAILY MAIL

Un roman de mer et de soleils étouffésUn roman de secrets brûlants et de livres oubliésUn roman d’amour contre la mortIngrid a 20 ans et des projets plein la tête quand elle rencontre Gil Coleman, pr

WINNER OF THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMENS PRIZE 2021Her strongest yet... a powerful, beautiful novel that shows us our land as it really is: a place of shelter and cruelty, innocence and experience THE TIMES__________________________________________________________________________When you live on the edge of society, it only takes one step to fall between the cracksTwins Jeanie and Julius have always been different from other people. At 51 years old, they still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation and poverty. Inside the walls of their old cottage they make music, and in the garden they grow (and sometimes kill) everything they need for sustenance.But when Dot dies suddenly, threats to their livelihood start raining down. Jeanie and Julius would do anything to preserve their small sanctuary against the perils of the outside world, even as their mothers secrets begin to unravel, putting everything they thought they knew about their lives at stake.Unsettled Ground is a powerful novel of betrayal and resilience, love and survival. It is a portrait of life on the fringes of society that explores with dazzling emotional power how we can build our lives on broken foundations, and spin light from darkness.____________________________________________________________________The way she writes (with empathy but never sentimentality) moves my heartELIZABETH DAY, author of MagpieA relevant and powerful exploration of isolation and life on the fringes of society CLARE MACKINTOSH, author of HostageAn atmospheric thriller thats both heartbreaking and heartwarming RED