Claire Lynch (writer)
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Claire Lynch (born 1981)[1] is a writer and academic. Her novel A Family Matter was the winner of the debut fiction and the Gold awards at the Nero Book Awards.[2] Lynch is the first debut novelist to win the overall prize at the Nero Awards since 2013.[2] A Family Matter is a bout the removal of children from their lesbian mothers in child custody cases in 1980s Britain.[2]
Lynch worked at Brunel University for 16 years. She is now an honorary professor of English and creative writing at Brunel.[2][3]
Lynch is from Dartford, Kent; her paternal family are from Cork. Lynch attended Wilmington Grammar School. She graduated from the University of Kent and the University of Oxford.[4]