Fuller, born and raised in Oxfordshire, studied sculpture at Winchester School of Art in the 1980s, working mainly in wood and stone, before embarking on a marketing career. She began writing fiction at the age of 40 and holds a master's degree in creative and critical writing from the University of Winchester. She is married, with two adult children.[1]
She won the BBC Opening Lines Short Story Competition in 2014,[6] and the Royal Academy & Pin Drop Short Story Award in 2016.[7][8]
Novels
Our Endless Numbered Days (2015) won the 2015 Desmond Elliott Prize for debut fiction and was long-listed for the International Dublin Literary Award. It was also nominated for the 2015 Edinburgh First Book Award, long-listed for the 2016 Waverton Good Read Award, and a finalist in the American Booksellers Association's 2016 Indies Best Books Award. It was a Richard & Judy Book Club pick for Spring 2016 and a Waterstones Book Club book. In 2015 it was selected by Powells as an indispensable book. It tells the story of Peggy Hillcoat, who when she is eight in 1976, spends her summer camping with her father, playing her beloved record of The Railway Children and listening to her mother's grand piano. After a family crisis which Peggy fully understands only later, her survivalist father James 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. Peggy is not seen again for another nine years.
Swimming Lessons (2017) tells the story of Ingrid Coleman who writes letters to her husband, Gil, about the truth of their marriage, but decides not to send them. Instead she hides them within the thousands of books her husband collects. After she writes her final letter, Ingrid disappears from an English beach. Twelve years later, her adult daughter, Flora, comes home after Gil says he has spotted Ingrid through a bookshop window. Flora, who has existed in a limbo of hope, grief, imagination and fact, wants answers, but fails to realise that what she is looking for is hidden in the books that surround her.
Bitter Orange (2018): Frances Jellico is dying and remembers the summer of 1969, when she was commissioned to survey the follies in the garden of Lyntons – a decrepit and almost derelict country house. Living there in the attic for a month or so, she meets Cara and Peter who are staying in the rooms below hers. As Frances falls under her new friends' spell and she learns their stories, the house offers up its secrets, until her life is changed forever.
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