Fuller is, undoubtedly, a master at building suspense. Unfortunately, Unsettled Ground fails to live up to its intriguing premise. It is also an exploration of poverty, community, and survival. However, this is not a typical mystery novel.
But when Dot dies of a stroke, their way of life is threatened as her secrets begin to unravel. They grow their own food, refuse to use banks, preferring instead to stash their money away in cubbyholes, and have an overall distrust of ‘civilisation’. At 51 years old, they live with their mother Dot in rural England, disconnected from the modern world. Twins Jeanie and Julius are described as ‘unnatural’. Longlisted for the 2021 Women’s Prize, Unsettled Ground is Claire Fuller’s fourth novel.
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