Clare Morrall
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Clare Morrall is an English
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 novel
Novel
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ist. Born in Exeter
Exeter
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, she has lived mainly in Birmingham
Birmingham
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, where she worked for many years as a music teacher. She achieved sudden success with her first published novel, Astonishing Splashes of Colour, which reached the shortlist for the 2003 Booker Prize. Her second novel, Natural Flights of the Human Mind, was published in 2006. The Language of Others followed in 2008, and The Man Who Disappeared in 2010. Her work has been translated into German, Spanish, Italian, French, Polish, Croatian, Russian, Dutch and Greek. Both books have been published in Canada and US.
She still works as a music teacher along side writing
she is a Jehovahs Witness

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