![]() ![]() Will they rise to the challenge? Will they be forced to grow? Will the truth set them free? What will the future hold? Could they have lived different lives? What would those different lives look like? How do you cope with the fallout of secrets? How indeed. Having to deal with them all at once is even harder. The shock of death, learning harsh realities and uncovering truths are difficult things. Both are lacking in life skills, and both learn that their mother's friends and even those living in the village, knew more about their mother than they both did. ![]() It is depressing and I felt for Julius and Jeanie for various reasons. Initially, I was not sure that I liked this book. ![]() After Dot's death in the beginning of the book (we are told this in the synopsis), they must find ways to survive. Julius works odd jobs for income, and both believe they know their mother but find that she had secrets. Jeanie has a garden she tends and sells the vegetables to a local restaurant. They live in a cottage in a rural setting, isolated, and in poverty. This is not a happy-go-lucky book but one that tells the story of fifty-one-year-old twins, Julius and Jeanie who lived with their mother, Dot until her sudden death one morning. There is a sense of melancholy throughout the book. The book, as other reviewers have mentioned, is unsettling. Unsettled Ground is such an apt title for this book. ![]()
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