Bücher von Claire Fuller

Wiltshire, im Südwesten Englands: Die Zwillinge Jeanie und Julius leben mit ihrer Mutter Dot am Rande der Gesellschaft in einem windschiefen Cottage. Jeanie kann nicht lesen und nicht schreiben, im Dorf verkauft sie, was sie in ihrem wilden Garten anbaut.Julius kämpft sich mit Gelegenheitsjobs durch. Ihr Leben ist einfach, sie haben nicht viel, aber was sie haben, gehört ihnen. Doch dann stirbt Dot und es kommen Geheimnisse über das Cottage, den Vater und Jeanies schwaches Herz ans Licht, die das Leben der Zwillinge seiner Einfachheit berauben.

'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---But she isn't 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, Women's Prize-shortlisted author of Unsettled Ground.---'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 Pleasures

Eigentlich hatte Ingrid andere Pläne. Ein selbstbestimmtes Leben, Reisen, eine Karriere als Schriftstellerin. Doch als sie sich in ihren Literaturprofessor Gil Coleman verliebt und von ihm schwanger wird, wirft sie für ihn all dies über Bord. Gil liebt seine junge Frau, und dennoch betrügt er sie, lässt sie viel zu oft mit den Kindern in dem kleinen Ort an der englischen Küste allein. Und dann verschwindet Ingrid plötzlich auf rätselhafte Art und Weise.

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 Times1976: 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.'Bewitching...a rivetingly dark tale...spellbinding' Sunday Express