livestream: Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller
Thursday 8th April
livestream - 7pm - free entry
Register your interest by getting your free ticket for this author talk with live music, instructions to join will be emailed shortly afterwards. For your security and ours, you cannot attend this talk without registering in advance first.
Join Claire Fuller via ZOOM to hear about her heart-stopping novel of betrayal and resilience - Unsettled Ground. She will be in conversation, and this talk will feature a live performance of music from the book!
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 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.
Claire Fuller’s first novel, Our Endless Numbered Days won the 2015 Desmond Elliott Prize, her second, Swimming Lessons was shortlisted for the Encore prize, and her third, Bitter Orange was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. Her books have been translated into 24 languages. Claire also writes flash fiction and short stories. Many have been published, and she has won the BBC Opening Lines short story competition, and the Royal Academy / Pin Drop prize. Her fourth novel, Unsettled Ground will be published in March 25th 2021. The Times call her “a latter day Daphne Du Maurier”!
This event includes a live performance of songs that feature in the book. Register via Eventbrite for instructions to join ZOOM event. This is a free entry event, but if you'd like to sling October Books a donation, please do.
We absolutely love Claire Fuller’s writing here at October Books. Order ‘Unsettled Ground’ from us via Bookshop.org here! If you’d like to delve into her back catalogue or would like to explore some similar themes, drop us an email with your order.
