Unsettled Ground

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 *
Dark, brilliantly observed and ultimately a tale of love winning the day. * The Sunday Telegraph *
An intriguing, moving novel that will make you question assumptions you have about modern life * Tracy Chevalier, author of ‘A Single Thread’ *
Superb…deservedly longlisted for this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction * Daily Mail *
A moving portrait of a family struggling against time. This book is ultimately about redemption-about the unexpected importance of neighbours, lovers, and friends, and the ways in which we can re-envision our lives for the better * Lucy Tan, author of What We Were Promised *
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’ *
With sensitivity and intelligence, Fuller unpicks the relentless complexity of the modern world * The Guardian *
‘The way she writes (with empathy but never sentimentality) moves my heart’ * Elizabeth Day, author of Magpie *
Fuller is excellent 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 is particularly unsettling * The Sunday Times *
It’s merciless in its observation of casual cruelty and merciful in its observation of casual kindness and family love * Richard Curtis *

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.

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