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  • Published: 2 August 2018
  • ISBN: 9780241983478
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 288
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Bitter Orange




A tense novel about deception, sexual obsession and atonement, by the prize-winning author of Our Endless Numbered Days

Frances Jellico is dying. A man who calls himself the vicar visits, hoping to extract a deathbed confession. He wants to know what really happened that fateful summer of 1969, when Frances - tasked with surveying a dilapidated country house - first set eyes on the glamorous bohemian couple, Cara and Peter. She recalls the relationship they forged through sweltering days, lavish dinners and elaborate lies, and the Judas hole through which she would spy on the couple.

Were the signs there right from the beginning?
Or was it impossible to avoid the crime that split their lives open like rotten fruit?

  • Published: 2 August 2018
  • ISBN: 9780241983478
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 288
Categories:

About the author

Claire Fuller

Claire Fuller was born in Oxfordshire, England, in 1967. She gained a degree in sculpture from Winchester School of Art, but went on to have a long career in marketing and didn't start writing until she was forty. She has an MA in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of Winchester and lives in Hampshire with her husband and two children. She is also an artist and sculptor and has had several short stories published. Our Endless Numbered Days is her first novel.

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