The polishing has paid off handsomely, winning her a number of literary prize-the Desmond Elliott Prize for her 2015 debut novel, Our Endless Numbered Days the BBC Opening Lines Short Story Competition in 2014 and the Royal Academy Short Story Award in 2016.įuller and her husband live in Winchester, England. Once they're written, I love rewriting, editing and polishing. Later, she attained her Master's in creative and critical writing from the University of Winchester.įuller began writing fiction at the age of 40. In the 1980s she studied sculpture at Winchester School of Art, working mainly in wood and stone, before embarking on a marketing career. Laire Fuller is an English writer and the author of the novels Our Endless Numbered Days (2015), Swimming Lessons (2017), and Bitter Orange (2018).

Education-Winchester School of Art M.A., University of Winchester.

Scandalous and whip-smart, Swimming Lessons holds the Coleman family up to the light, exposing the mysterious truths of a passionate and troubled marriage.

Flora, who has never believed her mother drowned, returns home to care for her father and to try to finally discover what happened to Ingrid.īut what Flora doesn't realize is that the answers to her questions are hidden in the books that surround her. Twelve years later, Gil thinks he sees Ingrid from a bookshop window, but he's getting older and this unlikely sighting is chalked up to senility. When Ingrid has written her final letter she disappears from a Dorset beach, leaving behind her beautiful but dilapidated house by the sea, her husband, and her two daughters, Flora and Nan. Ingrid Coleman writes letters to her husband, Gil, about the truth of their marriage, but instead of giving them to him, she hides them in the thousands of books he has collected over the years.

An exhilarating literary mystery that will keep readers guessing until the final page.

Swimming Lessons by Claire Fuller