Bitter Orange

Resumen del libro

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?

Biografía del autor

Claire Fuller nació en Oxfordshire, Inglaterra, en 1967. Sus cuatro novelas, Our Endless Numbered Days (2015, ganadora del premio Desmond Elliott y de próxima publicación en Impedimenta), Swimming Lessons (2017, premio Livre de Poche en Francia), Bitter Orange (2018, preseleccionada para el International Dublin Literary Award) y Tierra inestable (Costa Novel Award 2021, preseleccionada para el Women's Prize for Fiction 2021), se han traducido a más de veinte idiomas. Sus cuentos han sido publicados en una gran variedad de revistas literarias y han merecido diversos premios: Baker, Emily and Me ganó el concurso BBC Opening Lines de 2014, y A Quiet Tidy Man ganó el premio de la Royal Academy en la categoría de relatos. Actualmente vive en Winchester.