{"product_id":"bitter-orange-9781947793606","title":"Bitter Orange","description":"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's 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eClaire Fuller\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Oxfordshire, England, in 1967. She gained a degree in sculpture from Winchester School of Art, but went on to have a long career in marketing and didn't start writing until she was forty. She has written two other novels, \u003ci\u003eOur Endless Numbered Days\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Desmond Elliott Prize, and \u003ci\u003eSwimming Lessons\u003c\/i\u003e. She has an MA in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of Winchester and lives in Hampshire with her husband and two children.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Tin House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51807252742418,"sku":"9781947793606","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_73bd52dc-1a9f-4a00-9241-4288f02d246c.jpg?v=1766048151","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/bitter-orange-9781947793606","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}