**Childhood friends.** Tristan Rosier might have asked Malorie Monsard to marry him when he was five years old, but things had only gone downhill from there. She'd spent the rest of their lives ignoring him, abandoning him, and destroying his perfumes. Now she was back, to wreak who knew what havoc
Bitter Orange
โ Scribed by Claire Fuller
- Publisher
- Tin House Books
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 227 KB
- Edition
- First U.S. edition
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
A Best Book of Fall at Vulture, Elle, HuffPost, NYLON, Southern Living, Parade, and more.
From the author of Our Endless Numbered Days and Swimming Lessons, Bitter Orange is a seductive psychological portrait, a keyhole into the dangers of longing and how far a woman might go to escape her past.
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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...
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