Let’s all read this wonderful book, Unsettled Ground by Clair Fuller, winner of the Costa Novel Award 2021 and shortlisted for the 2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction.
We have until June 30 to read it and then come together with the author, Claire Fuller, to discuss it – just like Radio 4’s Bookclub! There should be copies available to order from the library or it is easily available in paperback.
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.
‘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
https://clairefuller.co.uk/
- Thursday 30 June 2022 2.30pm
- St Mary’s Church Beaminster DT8 3BA
- Adults Unreserved £12 Students £2