From first draft to finished book: award- winning author Claire Fuller and her agent Jane Finigan reveal what it really takes to write a novel.

& Jane Finigan – literary agent, Lutyens & Rubinstein

Claire Fuller is the author of six novels published by Fig Tree/Penguin and translated into more than twenty languages. Her debut, Our Endless Numbered Days, won the Desmond Elliott Prize, and Unsettled Ground won the Costa Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. Her latest novel, Hunger and Thirst, is published in May 2026.

Jane Finigan is a partner and co-owner at Lutyens & Rubinstein, one of the UK's most celebrated literary agencies. She has represented authors nominated for the Man Booker, Women's Prize, Costa, and many more, and has worked with Claire since the very start of her writing career.

Run by international creative writing competition The Bridport Prize. Previous winners include Kate Atkinson and Kit de Waal. Discover more at www.bridportprize.org.uk

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