6/24/2023 0 Comments Unsettled ground claire fuller![]() 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 is a powerful novel of betrayal and resilience, love and survival. ![]() Claire Fuller is the type of author you’d swear was simply born an author: such is her way with words that all of. 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. The author of the new, Women’s Prize for Fiction-longlisted novel Unsettled Ground on the books that have moved her lately, from novels by Tove Ditlevsen and Sam Selvon to engrossing memoirs. ![]() 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. ![]() ![]() 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 Fuller (Bitter Orange) follows a pair of 51-year-old twins leading an extremely sheltered life in present-day rural. ![]()
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