It is a portrait of life on the fringes of society that explores with dazzling emotional power how we can build our lives on broken foundations, and spin light from darkness. Unsettled Ground provides a richly detailed portrait of two outsiders out of step with the world and forced to confront the lies their late mother told to keep them at home. At 51 years old, they still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation and poverty. Unsettled Ground is a powerful novel of betrayal and resilience, love and survival. Unsettled Ground Claire Fuller 3.80 12,320 ratings1,815 reviews What if the life you have always known is taken from you in an instant What would you do to get it back Twins Jeanie and Julius have always been different from other people.

Jeanie and Julius would do anything to preserve their small sanctuary against the perils of the outside world, even as their mother's secrets begin to unravel, putting everything they thought they knew about their lives at stake. Inside the walls of their old cottage they make music, and in the garden they grow (and sometimes kill) everything they need for sustenance.īut when Dot dies suddenly, threats to their livelihood start raining down. In Unsettled Ground, award-winning author Claire Fuller masterfully builds a tale of sacrifice and hope, of homelessness and hardship, of love and survival, in which two marginalized and remarkable people uncover long-held family secrets and, in their own way, repair, recover, and begin again. Twins Jeanie and Julius have always been different from other people. When you live on the edge of society, it only takes one step to fall between the cracks

a powerful, beautiful novel that shows us our land as it really is: a place of shelter and cruelty, innocence and experience' THE TIMES When you live on the edge of society, it only takes one step to fall between the cracks Twins. WINNER OF THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2021 'Her strongest yet. a powerful, beautiful novel that shows us our land as it really is: a place of shelter and cruelty, innocence and experience' THE TIMES Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller - book cover, description.

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