03111nam a2200481Ii 4500 26338 26338 6816353 MeVbMML 20190502002957.0 180919s2018 oru 000 1 eng 2018024161 9781947793156 (hardcover) 1947793152 (hardcover) 6721350 (OCoLC)1052897494 (OCoLC)on1052897494 6721350 DLC eng rda TXN PR6106.U45 B58 2018 823/.92 23 Fuller, C FULLER C Fuller, Claire, author. 10532 Bitter orange / Claire Fuller. First US edition. Portland, Oregon ; Brooklyn, New York : Tin House Books, 2018. 317 pages ; 23 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier "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."-- From publisher's description. Manors Fiction. 10533 Married people England Fiction. 10534 Hedonism Fiction. 10535 Psychological fiction. lcgft 1182 New Shelf New Shelf New Shelf New Shelf New Shelf New Shelf New Shelf ddc BOOK ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ AF 2019-04-17 25.95 3 1 FULL 38590 2023-08-22 2023-08-15 2019-04-17 BOOK