Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller, read by Rachel Bavidge.

Through 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 are spending the summer in the areas below hers while Frances writes a report within the follies in your garden for the absent American owner. But she is distracted. Beneath a floorboard in her bathroom, she discovers a about Bitter Orange peephole gives her usage of her neighbours’ personal lives.

To Frances’ shock, Cara and Peter are keen to spend period with her. It’s the initial occasion that she’s got anybody to contact a friend, and in a short time they may be spending every day together: eating luxurious dinners, drinking bottle after wine, and smoking till the ash piles up on the crumbling home furniture. Frances is usually dazzled.

But as the hot summertime rolls lazily in, it turns into clear that not everything is ideal between Cara and Peter. The tales that Cara tells don’t quite accumulate – so that as Frances turns into significantly entangled in the lives from the attractive, hedonistic few, the limitations between truth and is situated, right and incorrect, start to blur.

Amid the decadence of this summer, a small crime brings on a 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 Complete Darling

‘Extremely atmospheric, vivid and intriguing. I had fashioned to keep reminding myself which i wasn’t reading a forgotten traditional’ Emma Healey