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Clare Chambers

くれあ・ちぇんばーず

Clare Chambers

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1966 (Croydon, Greater London, England, UK)
Nationality
British
Languages
English
Residence History
Croydon, Greater London → Oxford → New Zealand → Norwood, Surrey → Bromley, Kent

Career

Occupations
Novelist
Active Years
1992-2024

Education

Hertford College, Oxford
English
Period: 1984頃
Country: United Kingdom

Awards

Romantic Novel of the Year Award
1999
Work: Learning to Swim
Organization: Romantic Novelists' Association
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Learning to Swim

1998 Romance
lovegrowth

Small Pleasures

2020 Fiction
everyday lifejoy

Shy Creatures

2024 Fiction

Bibliography

  • Uncertain Terms
  • Back Trouble
  • Learning to Swim
  • A Dry Spell
  • In a Good Light
  • The Editor's Wife
  • Bright Girls
  • Burning Secrets
  • Small Pleasures
  • Shy Creatures

Legacy

British novelist known for romance and children's fiction. Won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award in 1999 for Learning to Swim.

Trivia

  • Daughter of English teachers.
  • Her husband Peter is also a teacher; wrote her first novel in New Zealand.