Unsettled Ground (First Edition)

Fuller, Claire

ISBN 10: 1951142489 / ISBN 13: 9781951142483

Published by Tin House Books, Portland, 2021

About this Item

First edition. First printing. Hardbound. Fine in a fine jacket. A clean tight copy. Publisher's price intact on rear jacket cover ($26.950). Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free. Rear Copies.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Unsettled Ground (First Edition)
• Publisher: Tin House Books, Portland
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1951142489
• ISBN 13: 9781951142483
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

About this title

Synopsis

At fifty-one years old, twins Jeanie and Julius still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation in the English countryside. The cottage they have shared their entire lives is their only protection against the modernizing world around them. Inside its walls, they make music, and in its garden, they grow everything they need to survive. To an outsider, it looks like poverty; to them, it is home.

But when Dot dies unexpectedly, the world they've so carefully created begins to fall apart. The cottage they love, and the security it offered, is taken back by their landlord, exposing the twins to harsh truths and even harsher realities. Seeing a new future, Julius becomes torn between the loyalty he feels towards his sister and his desire for independence, while Jeanie struggles to find work and a home for them both. And just when it seems there might be a way forward, a series of startling secrets from their mother's past come to the surface, forcing the twins to question who they are, and everything they know of their family's history.

In Unsettled Ground, award-winning author Claire Fuller masterfully builds a tale of sacrifice and hope, of homelessness and hardship, of love and survival, in which two marginalized and remarkable people uncover long-held family secrets and, in their own way, repair, recover, and begin again.

About the Author

Claire Fuller is the author of Our Endless Numbered Days, which won the Desmond Elliott Prize; Swimming Lessons; Bitter Orange; and Unsettled Ground, which won the Costa Novel Award and was a finalist for the Women's Prize for Fiction. She has an MA in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of Winchester and lives in Hampshire with her husband.

www.clairefuller.co.uk