Clare Chambers (novelist)

Clare Chambers (born 1966) is a British novelist of different genres. In 1999, her novel Learning to Swim won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award^[1] by the Romantic Novelists' Association.

Clare Chambers was born in Croydon, Greater London, the daughter of English teachers. In 1984, she went up to Oxford to read English at Hertford College.^[2][3] After graduating, she and her future husband, Peter, also a teacher, moved to New Zealand, where she wrote her first novel.^[2] The couple lived in Norwood, Surrey, close to Selhurst Park, and in 1993 moved to Bromley, Kent, where they brought up their children.

• 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)