Clare Chambers (born 1966 in

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, England) is a British

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of different genres. In 1999, her novel ''Learning to Swim'' won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the

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Biography

Clare Chambers was born on 1966 in

, daughter of English teachers. She read English at

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. and, after graduating, she and her future husband, Peter, also a teacher, moved to New Zealand, where she wrote her first novel. The couple lived in Norwood, Surrey, close to Selhurst Park, then moved to Bromley,

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(where they have lived since 1993) where they brought up their young family.

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

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