I’m very excited to be able to let you know the dates and locations I’ll be in North America during June. All links to more information, including event times are available on my Up-coming events page.

I’ll be in conversation with some amazing authors from Catherine Newman (at Odyssey Bookshop, South Hadley MA), author of the recently published (and wonderful) novel, We All Want Impossible Things, to Gina Chung, (McNally Jackson, New York) whose debut Sea Change features a Giant Pacific Octopus, and William Landay (Belmont Books, Belmont, MA), author of Defending Jacob and his latest novel, which I loved, All That is Mine I Carry With Me.

I’d love it if you could make it to one of these events, but if you live too far away please do let any bookish friends know about any events close to them.

Hope to see you in June!

My fifth novel, The Memory of Animals is published today in the UK in hardback, ebook and audio book. Buy a buy a copy from your lovely local independent book shop, Waterstones, or from Bookshop.org. Or the audio book from Audible.

Here’s what Penguin says about it:

From the Costa-Winning, Women’s Prize-shortlisted author of Unsettled Ground: a gripping, haunting novel about memory, love and survival, for readers of Never Let me Go and Leave the World Behind

Neffy is a young woman running away from grief and guilt, and the one big mistake that has derailed her career. When she answers the call to volunteer in a controlled vaccine trial, it offers her a way to pay off her many debts and, perhaps, to make up for the past.

But when the London streets below her window fall silent, and all external communications cease, only Neffy and four other volunteers remain in the unit. With food running out, and a growing sense that the strangers she is with may be holding back secrets, Neffy has questions that no one can answer. Does safety lie inside or beyond the unit? And who, or what is out there?

While she weighs up her choices, she is introduced to a pioneering and controversial technology which allows her to revisit memories from her life before: a childhood divided between her enigmatic mother and her father in his small hotel in Greece. Intoxicated by the freedom of the past and the chance to reunite with those she loves, she increasingly turns away from her perilous present. But in this new world where survival rests on the bonds between strangers, is she jeopardising any chance of a future?

The Memory of Animals is a taut and emotionally charged novel about freedom and captivity, survival and sacrifice and whether you can save anyone before you save yourself.

‘Another literary page-turner … Compulsive and thoroughly convincing. Terrific!’ Clare Chambers, author of Small Pleasures

‘Haunting and unsettling, moving and thoughtful, with horror lurking at the edges, this is a subtle, elegant novel. Claire Fuller is a huge talent’ Lucy Atkins, author of Magpie Lane

I’ll be doing lots of events around the UK, so please do join me at one if you can. https://clairefuller.co.uk/upcoming-events/

I’m really excited that my fifth novel, The Memory of Animals will be published by Tin House in the US and Canada in June 2023. The novel has also changed title. It will be published by Penguin in the UK and Commonwealth (excluding Canada), also under the title, The Memory of Animals.

Here’s the Tin House Deal, announced yesterday in Publishers Weekly, with a little taster of what the book is about: