Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller

A compulsive pageturner. Fuller creates an atmosphere of simmering menace with all the assurance of a latterday Daphne du Maurier The Times 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 swel Paperback softback