![]() ![]() But to what? The life they’d been living before is irreparably changed, and yet there is still life, and secrets which will be revealed. A story in which way leads on to way, with each twist in their paths leading them further into darkness even as they seek for evidence of light, and a way back. ![]() Julius does go out to work doing odd jobs and is the more robust of the twins. Jeannie and Julius Seeder are twins who live in rural isolation deep in the heart of Oxfordshire. This is a melancholy story, shared with lovely, if subdued, prose that flows effortlessly. Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller Book Review Posted on Apby Fictionophile It is hard to rewrite your own history. Dot sees, senses it coming, both a premonition and a physical acceptance of what will transpire, reaching out to comfort, she strokes Maude’s head. The serenity of the scene serves as a diversion, if only momentary, from the loss that will befall them soon. Unsettled Ground is a powerful novel of betrayal and resilience, love and survival. The family inside this little cottage includes Dot, a seventy year-old woman, her adult twins, Julius and Jeanie, and Jeanie’s beloved dog Maude. There’s a brief moment when Fuller seduces, lulls you into envisioning this lovely, bucolic setting. It settles on the plants and bare soil in the front garden and forms a perfect mound on top of the rotten gatepost, as though shaped from the inside of a teacup.’ It falls on the thatch, concealing the moss and the mouse damage, smoothing out the undulations, filling in the hollows and slips melting where it touches the bricks of the chimney. ![]() ’The morning sky lightens, and snow falls on the cottage. ![]()
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