Unsettled Ground: Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021
Autor Claire Fulleren Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 mar 2021
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What if the life you have always known is taken from you in an instant?
What would you do to get it back?
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 Groundis a heart-stopping 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.
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'A gorgeously written celebration of the natural world as well as a moving portrait of a family struggling against time'LUCY TAN
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ISBN-10: 0241457459
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Fig Tree
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Recenzii
Superb...deservedly longlisted for this year's Women's Prize for Fiction
Withsensitivity and intelligence, Fuller unpicks therelentless complexity of the modern world
Fuller isexcellent at description, and capturing the twins' awkward interactions with the world. The fate of the illiterate and weak-hearted Jeanie once she loses everything that is safe isparticularly unsettling
Unsettled Groundis anothersly psychological treatfrom Claire Fuller, whojust keeps on getting better with each book
Anatmospheric thrillerthat's bothheartbreakingandheartwarming
Tender, unusual... thesememorable characterswill work their way into your head and your heart
Fuller's prose isdarkly elegant, her eye for characterastute and humane, and her sense of placevividly atmospheric-- here is a writer of greatskill, sensitivity and subtlety
Claire Fuller strikes theperfect balance between beauty and melancholy, in thisrelevant and powerfulexploration of isolation and life on the fringes of society
Unsettled Groundshares with Fuller's previous works themes of closely guarded family secrets and homes built upon shaky foundations
Bewitching, otherworldly, full of dark foreboding. Claire Fuller isa dazzling storyteller
I had to keep reminding myself that I wasn't reading a forgotten classic
A storysuffusedwith thepoignancy of miscommunicationbetween people who love each other, of thethings we can never really know
Extraordinary,gripping. Fullerwrites with a singing simplicity that finds beauty amid the terror
Thrilling,transporting,delicately realisedand held together bya sophisticated sense of suspense
Notă biografică
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 written three previous novels: Our Endless Numbered Days, which won the Desmond Elliott Prize, Swimming Lessons, which was shortlisted for the RSL Encore Award, and Bitter Orange. Her most recent novel Unsettled Ground was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2021. She has an MA in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of Winchester and lives in Hampshire with her husband.
Descriere
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
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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 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.
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'So sharply, so utterly brilliant that I found myself holding my breath while reading it, dazzled by Fuller's mastery and precision' LAUREN GROFF, author of Fates and Furies
'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