Unsettled Ground : Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2021 - Claire Fuller

Unsettled Ground

Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2021

By: Claire Fuller

Paperback | 6 January 2022 | Edition Number 1

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When you live on the edge of society, it only takes one step to fall between the cracks Twins Jeanie and Julius have always been different. At 51 years old, they still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation and poverty. Their rented cottage is simultaneously their armour against the world and their sanctuary. Inside its walls they make music, in its garden they grow (and sometimes kill) everything they need for sustenance.

But when Dot dies suddenly, threats to their livelihood start raining down. At risk of losing everything, Jeanie and her brother must fight to survive in an increasingly cruel and unyielding world as their mother's secrets unfold, putting everything they thought they knew about their lives at stake.

This is a powerful novel of betrayal and resilience, love and survival. 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.

About the Author

Claire Fuller was born in Oxfordshire, England, in 1967. She gained a degree in sculpture from Winchester School of Art, but went on to have a long career in marketing and didn't start writing until she was forty.

She has an MA in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of Winchester and lives in Hampshire with her husband and two children.

She is also an artist and sculptor and has had several short stories published. Our Endless Numbered Days is her first novel.

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