Unsettled Ground Claire Fuller by Claire Fuller 9781951142483, 1951142489 instant download after payment.

"Unsettled Ground is another sly psychological treat from Claire Fuller, who just keeps on getting better with each book."  -  Laline Paull 

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. At 51 years old, they still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation and poverty. Their rented cottage is simultaneously their armour against the world and their sanctuary. Inside its walls they make music, in its garden, they grow (and sometimes kill) everything they need for sustenance. But when Dot dies suddenly, threats to their livelihood start raining down. 

"... brilliant and sly... Inkbourne is the village, and Fuller shrewdly deconstructs romantic notions about places like this, revealing a scene closer to Gothic horror... Julius finds them a dilapidated trailer deep in the spinney. Some of Fuller’s best writing limns the history in these chalk ridges and forests ... Fuller’s cottage stayed in my dreams, the wood range glowing."  -  Susan Straight, The Los Angeles Times

This 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 the darkness.