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Unsettled Ground
- Narrated by: Rachel Bavidge
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
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Unsettled Ground
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Publisher's Summary
Brought to you by Penguin.
Winner of The Costa Novel Award 2021.
Shortlisted for The Women's Prize 2021.
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 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.
Critic Reviews
"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)
"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 heart-breaking and heart-warming." (Red)
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- Gemma
- 04-05-2022
Depressing
Couldn’t listen to more than half way, as the story line and monotone reading left me feeling down.
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- Kate
- 14-04-2022
Great story!
I very much enjoyed this book! Some may find it slow and uneventful, but the characters are terrific, eccentric, unpredictable at times. I think deep down this is a story of an abusive and selfish mother who has not prepared her children to live in the real world and the terrible situation two grown siblings find themselves in when she is gone.
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- Matthew Roberts
- 10-01-2022
Very enjoyable
I really enjoyed this. Set in an English village, in my mind I could imagine the place. Good characters and Story.
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