Bitter Orange

An Amazon Best Book of October 2018:: As Frances Jellico lies in bed at the end of her life, she revisits the summer of 1969 when her existence was so different. That summer she had just buried her mother when she was hired to survey the gardens of an old, crumbling English country house. Moving into the house, Frances—a 39 year-old woman whose life in many ways had been smothered by her mother—discovers that a couple is living there as well. Cara and Peter are a glamorous duo, and soon Frances is invited into their life of lavish meals, booze, and cigarettes. It is like an awakening for Frances. But the author Claire Fuller has been weaving her story from the beginning—and as Frances begins to catch on that all is not as it seems, so does the reader. By the end, there will be lies, revelations, twists and turns—and crimes will be committed. Fuller is a master at drawing the lines between people, invisible and visible, and then pulling those lines like a puppeteer. --Chris Schluep, for the Amazon Book Review

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