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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 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 stories that Cara tells don t quite add up, and as Frances becomes increasingly entangled in the lives of the glamorous, hedonistic couple, the boundaries between truth and lies, right and wrong, begin to blur Amid the decadence, a small crime brings on a bigger one a crime so terrible that it will brand their lives forever. Best Read Books Bitter Orange author Claire Fuller – kino-fada.fr It s the summer of 1969, and Frances Jellico is at Lyntons, a decaying country house once grand, stripped of its treasures during wartime Having seen some pieces Frances has written for an academic journal, the new owner, Liebermann, has employed her to assess a bridge that sits in the grounds But she s not alone Liebermann has also commissioned Peter Robertson to make an inventory of the house s remaining contents, and he arrives with his partner, Cara They re a carefree, glamorous pair It s the summer of 1969, and Frances Jellico is at Lyntons, a decaying country house once grand, stripped of its treasures during wartime Having seen some pieces Frances has written for an academic journal, the new owner, Liebermann, has employed her to assess a bridge that sits in the grounds But she s not alone Liebermann has also commissioned Peter Robertson to make an inventory of the house s remaining contents, and he arrives with his partner, Cara They re a carefree, glamorous pair in stark contrast to Frances Lonely and awkward...Consider the bitter orange tree From a distance, the fruits look luscious and ripe and juicy But for those who actually try them, the taste is old, dried up, bitter, and in desperate need of a little sugar.Bitter orange may be a metaphor for Frances life Approaching 40, Frances has spent most of her adult life nursing her mother and is finally freed When offered a chance to research the architecture of Lyntons, a dilapidated English country house, she jumps at the opportunity Yet quickly, Consider the bitter orange tree From a distance, the fruits look luscious and ripe and juicy But for those who actually try them, the taste is old, dried up, bitter, and in desperate need of a little sugar.Bitter orange may be a metaphor for Frances life Approaching 40, Frances has spent most o...Bitter Orange is a novel about loneliness, lies, and one summer in an old house Frances spent years as the carer of her mother, but once her mother was gone, she was a lonely woman looking for purpose A job surveying the gardens of a dilapidated house for its American owner was an opportunity to do something different, but it becomes even stranger than she expected as she befriends Cara and Peter, the couple living beneath her in the house as Peter looks at the contents of the house Soon, the Bitter Orange is a novel about loneliness, lies, and one summer in an old house Frances spent y...Beautiful on the surface, but look a little closer and everything is decaying, rotting, falling apart An intriguing book of past and present, guilt and atonement, and the way we tell stories to recreate the world and our selves as we d like them to be Fuller writes fluid, fluent prose and though some of her symbolic imagery is a tad heavy handed those bitter oranges that glow with promise but which are acidic within, the trompe l oeil d cor, the repeated use of the word penance , she windsBeautiful on the surface, but look a little closer and everything is decaying, rotting, falling apart An intriguing book of past and present, guilt and atonement, and the way we tell stories to recreate the world and our selves as we d like them to be Fuller writes fluid, fluent prose and though some of her symbolic imagery is a ...I think this novel must be the perfect summer read I ve enjoyed it immensely amidst Britain s recent heat wave as its themes and setting sync with this feverish weather It s told from the perspective of elderly Frances who is lying on her deathbed She recalls a hot summer in 1969 when she worked at a dilapidated English country estate alongside a mysterious couple An American has purchased this crumbling residence and they ve been hired to catalogue and assess any architectural items of wort I think this novel must be the perfect summer read I ve enjoyed it immensely amidst Britain s recent heat wave as its themes and setting sync with this feverish weather It s told from the perspective of elderly Frances who is lying on h...Thanks very much to Tin House for the ARC I knew of course right from wrongClaire Fuller s Bitter Orange is a brilliant, grotesque, nuanced novel imbued with the scent of rotting citrus It s a story of violence, desire, and ravenous human need as the narrative unravels, we are asked to question the very nature of guilt, and whether penance is a necessary act or a vicious maw In this most British of books, the mundane is punctured by the unsettling as our three main characters move in Thanks very much to Tin House for the ARC I knew of course right from wrongClaire Fuller s Bitter Orange is a brilliant, grotesque, nuanced novel imbued with the scent of rotting citrus It s a story of violence, desire, and ravenous human need as the narrativ...Bitter Orange opens in the present time A woman named Frances Jellico is in a prison hospital near death Why she is there and what her crime was, is not known Slowly, and with great detail and intricacy, she reveals her story to a man who once served as her Vicar during the summer of 1969.This novel is an intricate psychological character study of three people who share a house In England during one summer in 1969 Two of them are charged with providing information about the history of the ho Bitter Orange opens in the present time A woman named France...dear lord,please let me obtain a review copy of this novel somehow.Frances assignment to write a report on the garden architecture of Lyntons country house will lead to farchanges in her life than she can possibly imagine.Everything about Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller is so utterly perfect, from the cover image to the final full stop that I am amazed at the fabulous quality of her writing I thought her first two books, Our Endless Numbered Days and Swimming Lessons were excellent but Bitter Orange is truly outstanding.Reading Bitter Orange is mesmerisi Frances assignment to write a report on the garden architecture of Lyntons country house will lead to farchanges in her life than she can possibly imagine.Everything about Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller is so utterly perfect, from the cover image to the final full stop th...The central motif of BITTER ORANGE popped out through its pungent prose, represented by a crumbling old manor on the English countryside In 1969, an American businessman, Mr Lieberman, bought the 1806 manse, Lyntons, wrapped around the original 1754 brick one and hired Londoner Frances Jellico to assess the the garden architecture, and another English expert, Peter, to report on the condition of the house and its fittings It is evident that Lyntons was once grand and impressive But things The central motif of BITTER ORANGE popped out through its pungent prose, represented by a crumbling old manor on the Engli...

Bitter Orange
  • 25 March 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 320 pages
  • 1947793152
  • Claire Fuller
  • Bitter Orange