Bitter Orange Audiobook (Free)

Penguin presents the audiobook release of Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller, go through by Rachel Bavidge.

From the attic of the dilapidated English country house, she sees them – Cara first: dark and beautiful, clinging to a marble fountain of Cupid, and Peter, an Apollo. It really is 1969 and they’re spending the summertime in the rooms below hers while Frances writes a report for the follies in the garden for the absent American owner. But she is sidetracked. Beneath a floorboard in her bathroom, she discovers a about Bitter Orange peephole gives her usage of her neighbours’ private lives.

To Frances’ shock, Cara and Peter are keen to spend period with her. It’s the first occasion that she has acquired anybody to call a friend, and before long they are spending every day collectively: eating lavish dinners, drinking bottle after wine, and smoking till the ash hemorrhoids through to the crumbling furniture. Frances can be dazzled.

But as the hot summertime rolls lazily in, it becomes very clear that not everything is ideal between Cara and Peter. The stories that Cara tells don’t quite add up – so that as Frances turns into progressively entangled in the lives of the attractive, hedonistic couple, the boundaries between truth and lies, right and incorrect, begin to blur.

Amid the decadence of this summer, a small crime brings on the bigger one: a crime so terrible that it will brand almost all their lives forever.

‘A twisty, thorny, darkly atmospheric page turner about loneliness and belonging’ Gabriel Tallent, writer of My Overall Darling

‘Extremely atmospheric, vivid and interesting. I had to maintain reminding myself that I wasn’t reading a neglected classic’ Emma Healey