Clare Chambers
Clare Chambers was born in SE London in 1966 and began her career as a secretary at the publisher André Deutsch, when Diana Athill was still at the helm. Her first novel was published by Deutsch in 1992 and she is the author of nine other novels. Small Pleasures, her first work of fiction in a decade, was selected for BBC2 Between the Covers, BBC Radio 4 Book Club and A Book at Bedtime, and was chosen as a book of the year by The Times, the Evening Standard, Daily Telegraph, and Spectator among others. It was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2021 and won Pageturner of the Year at the British Book Awards 2022. Her latest novel is Shy Creatures (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2024).