
Claire Fuller – Unsettled Ground
In Claire Fuller’s Unsettled Ground fifty-one-year-old twins, Jeanie and Julius still live at home with their mother, Dot in a rural location that has protected them their whole lives from the modernizing world outside. Here, they make music and grow all they need to survive in their garden. When Dot dies unexpectedly though, the twins’ home is taken back by the landlord and they are exposed to the harsh realities of the world. Julius becomes torn between loyalty to his sister and his want for independence while Jeanie struggles to find a home for them both. Then, a series of shocking secrets from their mother’s past are revealed, and the twins are forced to question who they are and everything they knew of their family’s history.