{"product_id":"unsettled-ground-hc","title":"Unsettled Ground HC","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWinner of the 2021 Costa Novel Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFinalist for the Women's Prize in Fiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Month by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eEntertainment Weekly,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e PopSugar, Bustle, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eChicago Review of Books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, PureWow, a Best Book of Summer by Daily Beast and a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eGood Housekeeping\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e Best Book of 2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Full of dramatic twists and turns right up until its moving, beautiful end.” ―NPR Books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt fifty-one years old, twins Jeanie and Julius still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation in the English countryside. The cottage they have shared their entire lives is their only protection against the modernizing world around them. Inside its walls, they make music, and in its garden, they grow everything they need to survive. To an outsider, it looks like poverty; to them, it is home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut when Dot dies unexpectedly, the world they’ve so carefully created begins to fall apart. The cottage they love, and the security it offered, is taken back by their landlord, exposing the twins to harsh truths and even harsher realities. Seeing a new future, Julius becomes torn between the loyalty he feels towards his sister and his desire for independence, while Jeanie struggles to find work and a home for them both. And just when it seems there might be a way forward, a series of startling secrets from their mother’s past come to the surface, forcing the twins to question who they are, and everything they know of their family’s history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eUnsettled Ground\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, award-winning author Claire Fuller masterfully builds a tale of sacrifice and hope, of homelessness and hardship, of love and survival, in which two marginalized and remarkable people uncover long-held family secrets and, in their own way, repair, recover, and begin again.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Friends of the Mill Valley Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52687629517031,"sku":null,"price":4.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/3397\/3991\/files\/518ldi7K8BL.webp?v=1790374842","url":"https:\/\/friendsmvl.org\/products\/unsettled-ground-hc","provider":"Friends of the Mill Valley Library","version":"1.0","type":"link"}