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[i]'A twisty, thorny, darkly atmospheric page turner about loneliness and belonging.'-- Gabriel Tallent, author of  My Absolute Darling. 'Incredibly atmospheric, vivid and intriguing. I had to keep reminding myself that I wasn't reading a forgotten classic.'-- Emma Healey.[/i] From the author of the prize-winning Our Endless Numbered Days comes a suspenseful story about deception, sexual obsession and atonement From the attic of a dilapidated English country house, she sees them - Cara first: dark and beautiful, clinging to a marble fountain of Cupid, and Peter, an Apollo. It is 1969 and they are spending the summer in the rooms below hers while Frances writes a report on the follies in the garden for the absent American owner. But she is distracted. Beneath a floorboard in her bathroom, she discovers a peephole which gives her access to her neighbours' private lives. To Frances' surprise, Cara and Peter are keen to spend time with her. It is the first occasion that she has had anybody to call a friend, and before long they are spending every day together: eating lavish dinners, drinking bottle after bottle of wine, and smoking cigarettes till the ash piles up on the crumbling furn

Who reads Bitter Orange?

Author

Claire Fuller

Publisher

Penguin Books Limited (UK)

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780241341827

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.87 / 5 (28 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14