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 by the Romantic Novelists' Association.[1]

Clare Chambers
Born1966 (age 54–55)
Croydon, Greater London, England, UK
OccupationNovelist
LanguageEnglish
NationalityBritish
Period1992–present
GenreRomance, children's fiction
Notable awardsRoNA Award
SpousePeter

Biography

Clare Chambers was born on 1966 in Croydon, Greater London, daughter of English teachers. At 16, she met Peter, her future husband, a teacher 14 years older than her. She read English at Oxford University.[2]

She and her husband moved to New Zealand, where she wrote her first novel.[2]

She lived in Kent with her young family.[2]

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)

References and sources
  1. Awards by the Romantic Novelists' Association, 7 October 2012
  2. Author: "Clare Chambers, Random House Group".
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