Clare Chambers’ first job after reading English Literature at Hertford College, Oxford, was working with Diana Athill at André Deutsch. They published Clare’s first novel Uncertain Terms in 1992.
Clare is also the author of Back Trouble, Learning to Swim, A Dry Spell, In A Good Light, The Editor’s Wife and Small Pleasures.
Since 2020 Clare has been a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Kent. She lives with her husband in south-east London.