Clare Morrall

{{Short description|English novelist}} {{Multiple issues| {{BLP sources|date=December 2014}} {{One source|date=June 2024}} }} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2017}} {{Use British English|date=May 2017}}

'''Clare Morrall''' (born 1952, Exeter)<ref name="BC">{{cite web |title=Clare Morrall |url=https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/clare-morrall |publisher=British Council}}</ref> is an English novelist. She has lived mainly in Birmingham, where she worked for many years as a music teacher. Her debut novel, ''Astonishing Splashes of Colour'', was shortlisted for the 2003 Booker Prize.<ref name="BC"/> She has subsequently had seven novels published.

==Works== * ''Astonishing Splashes of Colour'' (2003, Sceptre) * ''Natural Flights of the Human Mind'' (2006, Sceptre) * ''The Language of Others'' (2008, Sceptre) * ''The Man Who Disappeared'' (2010, Sceptre) * ''The Roundabout Man'' (2012, Sceptre) * ''After the Bombing'' (2014, Sceptre) * ''When the Floods Came'' (2016, Sceptre) * ''The Last of the Greenwoods'' (2018, Sceptre)

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