Unsettled Ground
British novelist, born 1967. Won the Costa Novel Award in 2021.
Unsettled Ground is a 2021 novel by Claire Fuller. It won the Costa Novel Award in 2021.
In family saga
On 2 of the 12 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Claire Fuller
- First published
- 2021
- Length
- 304 pages (UK paperback)
- Awards
- Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist, 2021
- Costa Novel Award winner, 2021
- Genre
- Literary fiction, Rural life, Family saga, Class and society
Is Unsettled Ground worth reading?
2 of the 12 best-of lists it could have made include it: the Costa Novel Award and the Women's Prize for Fiction.
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Costa (Whitbread) Novel Award (winners and shortlists) (Costa, 2021) | Winner | See the list |
| Women's Prize for Fiction (winners and shortlists) (Women's Prize Trust, 2021) | Shortlist | See the list |
Best edition of Unsettled Ground
The edition we link to is the Fig Tree paperback (2022), 304 pages.
- Publisher
- Fig Tree (paperback, 2022)
- Pages
- 304
- ISBN
- 9780241457467
How critics, prizes and readers rate Unsettled Ground
Prize juries rate it most highly: it earned 42% of the points available on prize lists, against 0% on critics' lists and 0% on readers' and booksellers' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
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