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 (Oxfordshire, 1967) es una célebre autora inglesa de novelas y ficción breve. Entre sus obras cabe destacar x{0026}lt;i Our Endless Numbered Daysx{0026}lt;/i (premio Desmond Elliott), x{0026}lt;i Swimming Lessonsx{0026}lt;/i (premio Livre de Poche), y x{0026}lt;i Tierra inestablex{0026}lt;/i (Impedimenta, 2023; Costa Novel Award 2021). Su novela más reciente es x{0026}lt;i La memoria de los animalesx{0026}lt;/i , que publicamos ahora en Impedimenta. Su obra se ha traducido a más de veinte idiomas, y sus relatos cortos han sido publicados en una gran variedad de revistas literarias. Actualmente vive en Winchester, con su marido y un gato llamado Alan.x{0026}lt;/p