I wanted her to get a job – but how does she do that if she can’t read or write?”įuller captures the everyday realities of rural hardship – dirt, poor public transport links, long distances to hospitals – without labouring the point. “I would put her in situations then realise I couldn’t do that because she couldn’t read. “Reading and writing are fundamental to who I am and what I do, so it was difficult to get inside her head,” says Fuller. “I like that Dot is enigmatic because sometimes we can’t have answers.”įor Jeanie, matters are even more complicated because she cannot read or write. “People remember the dead differently,” says Fuller. They are 51 when their mother, Dot, dies at the beginning of the novel, leaving a legacy of debt, unanswered questions and a battle to remain in the cottage in which they have lived their whole lives. The caravan appears in the middle of Unsettled Ground, after its protagonist, Jeanie, and her twin brother, Julius, become homeless.
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