Unsettled Ground

Resumen del libro

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 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 from other people. At 51 years old, they still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation and poverty.

Inside the walls of their old cottage they make music, and in the garden they grow (and sometimes kill) everything they need for sustenance. But when Dot dies suddenly, threats to their livelihood start raining down. 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.

Unsettled Ground 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. 'The way she writes (with empathy but never sentimentality) moves my heart' ELIZABETH DAY, author of Magpie'A relevant and powerful exploration of isolation and life on the fringes of society' CLARE MACKINTOSH, author of Hostage'An atmospheric thriller that's both heartbreaking and heartwarming' RED

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p Claire Fuller (1967, Oxfordshire, Inglaterra) estudió escultura en la Escuela de Arte de Winchester, obtuvo un máster de Escritura Creativa y Escritura Crítica por la Universidad de Winchester y comenzó su carrera como escritora a la edad de cuarenta años. Sus novelas han recibido una excelente acogida y se han traducido a más de veinte idiomas: x{0026}lt;i Nuestros días serán infinitosx{0026}lt;/i , que publicamos ahora en Impedimenta, fue ganadora del premio Desmond Elliott a mejor debut literario en 2015; x{0026}lt;i Swimming Lessonsx{0026}lt;/i (2017) obtuvo el premio Livre de Poche en Francia; x{0026}lt;i Naranjas amargasx{0026}lt;/I (2018) fue preseleccionada para el International Dublin Literary Award y x{0026}lt;i Tierra inestablex{0026}lt;/i (2021; Impedimenta, 2023) obtuvo el Costa Novel Award, y fue preseleccionada para el Womenx{0026} x02019;s Prize for Fiction. Sus cuentos han sido publicados en varias revistas literarias: Baker, Emily and Me ganó el concurso BBC Opening Lines de 2014, y A Quiet Tidy Man ganó el premio de la Royal Academy en la categoría de relatos. x{0026}lt;i La memoria de los animalesx{0026}lt;/i (2023; Impedimenta, 2024) es su novela más reciente. Actualmente Claire Fuller vive en Winchester.x{0026}lt;/p