With four published novels over the past seven years – her latest, 2021’s Unsettled Ground – and two awards, plus five nominations and shortlisted awards, it may come as a surprise to see how new Claire is to the industry, and indeed writing in general.īorn in Oxfordshire, she first came to Winchester to study Sculpture at the School of Art in the 1980s, graduating in 1989. Faculty of Humanities & Social SciencesĪn interview with alumna Author Claire Fuller – by Eden Irving ( BA (Hons) Creative Writing)Ĭlaire Fuller is an award-winning author and alumna of the University of Winchester.Faculty of Education, Health & Social Care.Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences research.Faculty of Health and Wellbeing research.Faculty of Business, Law and Digital Technologies research.International scholarships, bursaries & awards.Research scholarships, bursaries & awards.Postgraduate scholarships, bursaries & awards.Undergraduate scholarships, bursaries & awards.The Memory of Animals is a taut and emotionally charged novel about freedom and captivity, survival and sacrifice and whether you can save anyone before you save yourself. But in this new world where survival rests on the bonds between strangers, is she jeopardising any chance of a future? Intoxicated by the freedom of the past and the chance to reunite with those she loves, she increasingly turns away from her perilous present. While she weighs up her choices, she is introduced to a pioneering and controversial technology which allows her to revisit memories from her life before: a childhood divided between her enigmatic mother and her father in his small hotel in Greece. Does safety lie inside or beyond the unit? And who, or what is out there?

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. 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.īut when the London streets below her window fall silent, and all external communications cease, only Neffy and four other volunteers remain in the unit.

Neffy is a young woman running away from grief and guilt and the one big mistake that has derailed her career. From the Costa-Winning, Women's Prize-shortlisted author of Unsettled Ground : a gripping, haunting novel about memory, love and survival, for fans of Never Let me Go and Leave the World Behind.

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