{"product_id":"hunger-and-thirst-9780241757390","title":"Hunger and Thirst","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe new novel from Women's Prize-shortlisted, Costa Award-winning author of Unsettled Ground - an addictively propulsive, richly nuanced and haunting story of horrors without and within  1987: After a childhood trauma and years in and out of the care system, sixteen-year-old Ursula finds herself with a new job in the postroom of a local art school, a bed in a halfway house, and-delightfully- some new friends, including wild-child, Sue. When Ursula is invited to join a squat at The Underwood, a mysterious house whose owners met a terrible end, she can't resist the promise of a readymade, hodgepodge family.  But as Sue's behaviour and demands become more extreme, Ursula who has always been hungry-for food-and more importantly for love, acceptance and belonging, carries out her friend's terrible dare. It's a decision that will haunt her for decades.  Thirty-six years later, Ursula is a renowned, reclusive sculptor living under a pseudonym in London when her identity is exposed by true-crime documentary-maker who is digging into an unsolved disappearance. But it is not only the filmmaker who has discovered Ursula's whereabouts, and as her past catches up with her present, Ursula must work out whether the monsters are within her or without.  From critically acclaimed and award-winning author, Claire Fuller, Hunger and Thirst is a compelling and chilling tale of loneliness and female friendship, of the dangerous line between wanting and needing, and of how far a person will go to truly belong.\u003ch4\u003eDetails\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN13: 9780241757390\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNumber of Pages: 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdition: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication Date: 25 Aug 2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: Penguin Books Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication City, Country: London, United Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions (cm): 23.4(H)x15.5(L)x2.5(W)380\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeight (gm): 380\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h4\u003eClaire Fuller was born in Oxfordshire, England, in 1967. She gained a degree in sculpture from Winchester School of Art, but went on to have a long career in marketing and didn't start writing until she was forty. She has written five previous novels including: Unsettled Ground, which in 2021 won the Costa Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, Our Endless Numbered Days, which won the Desmond Elliott Prize, Swimming Lessons, which was shortlisted for the RSL Encore Award. She has an MA in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of Winchester and lives in Hampshire with her husband.\u003ch4\u003eReviews\u003c\/h4\u003e‘An absolute masterpiece. Utterly absorbing, genuinely unsettling …\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003elike all the most terrifying horror films of the 70’s and 80’s and all the most scary ghost stories’ * Jennie Godfrey, author of The List of Suspicious Things *\u003cbr\u003eAtmospheric, psychologically vivid, and unputdownable ... it frightened and enthralled me * Alice Winn, author of In Memoriam *\u003cbr\u003eA lurid, big-boned, messy, often brilliant book, full of the intense feeling and intimate portrayal of the inner life that characterises Fuller’s work * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003ePsychologically gripping, disquieting, and breathlessly suspenseful …. brilliant and truly terrifying * Kirkus Reviews *\u003cbr\u003eUnremittingly unsettling, propulsive and tense. Fuller excels at depicting outsiders, and writes with such precision and economy. Truly terrifying * Sarah Vaughan, author of Little Disasters *\u003cbr\u003eAddictive, disturbing and suspenseful. It reminded me of Ruth Rendell\/Barbara Vine at her most vivid. Ursula is a rare creation * Amanda Craig *\u003cbr\u003eA truly chilling story ... I was entirely captured in this novel’s haunting spell * Essie Fox, author of The Fascination *\u003cbr\u003eLove story, psychological thriller, highly literary horror - Claire Fuller pulls off all three with this brilliant novel that is familiar and frightening in equal measure. Most of all, it's GREAT FUN. I absolutely loved it * Kathleen MacMahon, author of Nothing but Blue Sky *\u003cbr\u003eSuch a propulsive book - but at the same time, such a deep examination of art and violence and the slipperiness at the heart of both memory and friendship. I was absolutely gripped by it * Jenn Ashworth, author of Ghosted *\u003cbr\u003eGothic, disturbing, and mesmerisingly well-written, Hunger \u0026amp; Thirst is like nothing I’ve read before. Claire Fuller’s ability to generate suspense, revulsion, and disquiet within a nuanced and intelligent world is second to none. * Lucy Atkins, author of Magpie Lane *","brand":"Claire Fuller","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49180372467929,"sku":"9780241757390","price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0502\/9530\/8441\/files\/9780241757390.jpg?v=1788354535","url":"https:\/\/www.arielbooks.com.au\/products\/hunger-and-thirst-9780241757390","provider":"Ariel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}