What if the life you've always known is taken from you in an instant? What would you do to get it back?
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.
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*
Unsettled Ground is another sly psychological treat from Claire
Fuller, who just keeps on getting better with each book
*Laline Paull*
These memorable characters will worm their way into your head and
heart and the descriptions of the landscape are beautiful.
*Jo Finney, Good Housekeeping*
An atmospheric thriller that's both heartbreaking and
heartwarming
*Red*
Tender, unusual... these memorable characters will work their way
into your head and your heart
*Good Housekeeping*
Fuller's prose is darkly elegant, her eye for character astute and
humane, and her sense of place vividly atmospheric -- here is a
writer of great skill, sensitivity and subtlety
*Lucy Atkins, author of Magpie Lane*
Claire Fuller strikes the perfect balance between beauty and
melancholy, in this relevant and powerful exploration of isolation
and life on the fringes of society
*Clare Mackintosh, author of Hostage*
Unsettled Ground shares with Fuller's previous works themes of
closely guarded family secrets and homes built upon shaky
foundations
*Financial Times*
This literary thriller is as moving and poignant as it is
compelling
*Express*
These memorable characters will worm their way into your head and
heart the descriptions of the landscape are beautiful
*Good Housekeeping*
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