Claire Powell is the author of At The Table , which was named one of the best books of 2022 by The Times and Sunday Times , The Telegraph , The Critic , Red Magazine and Good Housekeeping . A graduate of the University of East Anglia Creative Writing MA, she was awarded the Malcolm Bradbury Bursary and the Malcolm Bradbury Continuation Prize. Her short stories have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and in 2017 she won the Harper's Bazaar short story contest. She lives with her family in south-east London.