- English literature
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.
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Intimate, contemplative, earnest and grave.
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- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Claire Fuller
- First published
- 2021
- Pages
- 304
- Publisher
- Tin House Books, Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio, Penguin Books, Limited
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781713632139
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