​The Choice is available now.

​I'm Claire Wade, the winner of the Good Housekeeping First Novel Competition 2018, the East Anglian Book Award 2020 for Fiction and author of The Choice.
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I also co-founded the group Authors with Disabilities & Chronic Illnesses (ADCI).
I was bed bound for six years with severe ME, trapped in a body that wouldn't do what I wanted.

I now write about women who want to break free from the constraints of their lives, a subject I'm deeply familiar with.

My award-winning debut novel The Choice is out now.


What’s The Choice about?

Imagine a world where...
Everything you ate was monitored by the government.
Every step you took was counted.
Your children were weighed every day at school.
Neighbours reported on neighbours and no one was safe from judgement.
Sugar was illegal, and baking was a crime.
Imagine if that world was here... What would you do?
Toe the line or fight for your freedom...


What the critics are saying...

  • ​Big Brother meets Betty Crocker in this electrifying debut ... Take the day off, because you won't be able to stop until the very end - Christina Dalcher, author of Vox

  • A gripping, chillingly realistic look at how far oppression can go and what part ordinary people play - Good Housekeeping

  • A cleverly woven tale - The Times

  • A captivating and thought-provoking debut - Heidi Swain

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