I’m looking forward to reading more by Claire Fuller. This would make a fabulous book club recommendation as there are many talking points and a lot to discuss about this novel. It’s dark, vivid and melancholic but very well written and engaging. 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. In summary, Unsettled Ground is a unique story but not a happy one. If it’s possible for two fifty-one-year-olds to qualify as orphans, these twinsisolated, inhibited, distrustful of outsidersare that. Unsettled Ground is a heart-stopping novel of betrayal and resilience, love and survival. In a secluded cottage in the Oxfordshire countryside, twins Jeanie and Julius wake up to find their only parent dead on the kitchen floor. 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. At 51 years old, they still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation and poverty. Twins Jeanie and Julius have always been different from other people. What if the life you have always known is taken from you in an instant? Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2021
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