![]() Fuller reveals very little of why and where Frances is and she structures the story in most skilful way, injecting parts with old Frances talking about the past to the main story, we learn what happened that summer and what is actually wrong with Peter and Cara consecutively without getting distracted and disconnected from the novel. ![]() The story stars with Frances as an old woman and she is looking back the summer of 1969 from what seems as a death bed. The reader will scrap the polish following the red flags, Peter and Cara are not what they claim to be. But there is a mist of mystery around Peter and Cara. She discovers a hole in the bathroom floor, a Judas hole, she prefers to call it, and watches them. ![]() There she meets Peter and Cara, an attractive couple with a very noticeable peculiarity.įrances Jellico, unmarried, unloved, gets obsessed with this husband and wife. Dealing with the recent the loss of her mum, she travels to an estate in Hampshire Lyntons, to create a report of the estate’s architecture. Says Frances, the heroine of Bitter Orange. ![]() Mother always said that I was a girl who liked order, to know what would happen next. Characters in Claire Fuller’s breathtakingly atmospheric and cleverly structured novel are in a way very similar to bitter oranges. ![]() Bitter Orange, the fruit, is not what it seems looks sweet and plump as an orange but it’s almost inedible and sour. ![]()
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