I’m delighted that today, my sixth novel Hunger and Thirst is published by Tin House / Zando in the US, and by Bond Street Books / Double Day in Canada.
Aren’t these covers amazing?
It’s Belletrist’s book club pick for June (I’ll be doing an Instagram Live with them on 6 June), and on Thursday 4 June I’ll be live on a Canadian TV breakfast show (remotely!). There are lots of podcast interviews about to pop up, but you can already listen to me chatting to Horror in the Margins. Also on Thursday 4 June, I have a US online launch event at 6pm EDT, which is free to attend, you just need to sign up here.
I hope you enjoy the book if you pick it up, and if you see it in any Canadian or US bookstores, take a picture and let me know.
Happy reading!
What it’s about
1987: After a childhood trauma and years in and out of the care system, sixteen-year-old Ursula finds herself with a new job delivering mail at a local art school, a bed in a halfway house, and—delightfully— some new friends, including wild-child, Sue. When Ursula is invited to join a squat at the Underwood, a mysterious house whose owners met a terrible end, she can’t resist this hodgepodge family. But as Sue’s behavior and demands become more extreme, Ursula who has always been hungry—for food—and more importantly for love, acceptance and belonging carries out her friend’s terrible dare. And, for this, Ursula finds herself haunted—literally haunted.
Thirty-six years later, Ursula is a renowned, reclusive sculptor living under a pseudonym in London when her identity is exposed by true-crime documentary-maker, Emma Zahini who is digging into an unsolved disappearance. But it is not only the filmmaker who has discovered Ursula’s whereabouts, and as her past catches up with her present, Ursula must work out whether the monsters are within her or without.
From critically acclaimed and award-winning author, Claire Fuller, Hunger and Thirst is a compelling and chilling tale of loneliness and female friendship, of the dangerous line between wanting and needing, and of how far a person will go to truly belong.