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Bitter orange by Claire Fuller; OverDrive, Inc is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Bitter orange about?

An NPR Best Book of the Year "Unsettling and eerie, Bitter Orange is an ideal chiller." —Time Magazine From the author of Our Endless Numbered Days and Swimming Lessons, Bitter Orange is a seductive psychological portrait, a keyhole into the dangers of longing and how far a woman might go to escape her past. From the attic of Lyntons, a dilapidated English country mansion, Frances Jellico sees them—Cara first: dark and beautiful, then Peter: striking and serious. The couple is spending the summer of 1969 in the rooms below hers while Frances is researching the architecture in the surrounding gardens. But she’s distracted. Beneath a floorboard in her bathroom, she finds a peephole that gives her access to her neighbors' private lives. To Frances’s surprise, Cara and Peter are keen to get to know her. It is the first occasion 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 until the ash piles up on the crumbling furniture. Frances is dazzled. But as the hot summer rolls lazily on, it becomes clear that not everything is right between Cara and Peter. The stor

Who reads Bitter orange?

Author

Claire Fuller; OverDrive, Inc

Publisher

Tin House Books, LLC

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781947793163

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

4 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-24