Clare Chambers (novelist)
Clare Chambers | |
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_20241127.jpg) Chambers at Hatchards London in 2024 | |
| Born | 1966 (age 57–58) Croydon, Greater London, England, UK |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Language | English |
| Period | 1992–present |
| Genre | Romance, children's fiction |
| Notable awards | RoNA Award |
| Spouse | Peter |
Clare Chambers (born 1966) 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
[edit]Clare Chambers was born in Croydon, Greater London, the daughter of English teachers. In 1984, she went up to Oxford to read English at Hertford College.[2][3] After graduating, she and her future husband, Peter, also a teacher, moved to New Zealand, where she wrote her first novel.[2] The couple lived in Norwood, Surrey, close to Selhurst Park, and in 1993 moved to Bromley, Kent, where they brought up their children.
Bibliography
[edit]Single novels
[edit]- 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)
- Shy Creatures (2024)
References and sources
[edit]- ^ Awards awarded by the Romantic Novelists' Association, 7 October 2012
- ^ a b "Clare Chambers". Royal Literary Fund. Retrieved 10 April 2024.
- ^ "Small Pleasures". Hertford College. Retrieved 10 April 2024.
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Categories:
- 1966 births
- Alumni of Hertford College, Oxford
- People from Croydon
- Writers from the London Borough of Croydon
- Living people
- English romantic fiction writers
- RoNA Award winners
- 20th-century English novelists
- 21st-century British novelists
- 20th-century English women writers
- 21st-century English women writers
- British women romantic fiction writers
- English women novelists