Clare Chambers (novelist)

Clare Chambers (born 1966 in Croydon, Greater London, England) is a British novelist of different genres. In 1999, her novel Learning to Swim won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award^[1] by the Romantic Novelists' Association.

Biography

Clare Chambers was born on 1966 in Croydon, Greater London, daughter of English teachers. She read English at Oxford University.^{[citation needed]} and, after graduating, she and her future husband, Peter, also a teacher, moved to New Zealand, where she wrote her first novel.^{[citation needed]} The couple lived in Norwood, Surrey, close to Selhurst Park, then moved to Bromley, Kent (where they have lived since 1993) where they brought up their young family.

Bibliography

Single novels

• Uncertain Terms (1992)
• Back Trouble (1994)
• Learning to Swim (1998)
• A Dry Spell (2000)
• In a Good Light (2004)
• The Editor's Wife (2007)
• Bright Girls (2009)
• Burning Secrets (2011)
• Small Pleasures (2020)

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