Bitter orange
Fuller, Claire2018
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From the attic of a dilapidated English country house, she sees them - Cara first: dark and beautiful, clinging to a marble fountain of Cupid, and Peter, an Apollo. It is 1969 and they are spending the summer in the rooms below hers while Frances writes a report on the follies in the garden for the absent American owner. But she is distracted. Beneath a floorboard in her bathroom, she discovers a peephole which gives her access to her neighbours' private lives. To Frances' surprise, Cara and Peter are keen to spend time with her. It is the first occasion that 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 till the ash piles up on the crumbling furniture. Frances is dazzled.
Main title:
Bitter orange / Claire Fuller.
Author:
Fuller, Claire, author
Imprint:
UK : Fig Tree, 2018.
Collation:
279 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9780241341827 (hbk. :)
Local class:
FICTFict
Language:
English
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BRN:
2230237