Claire Fuller is the author of Our Endless Numbered Days, which won
the Desmond Elliott Prize; Swimming Lessons; Bitter Orange; and
Unsettled Ground, which won the Costa Novel Award and was a
finalist for the Women's Prize for Fiction. She has an MA in
Creative and Critical Writing from the University of Winchester and
lives in Hampshire with her husband.
www.clairefuller.co.uk
Bitter Orange twists and bends, arouses and agitates, like a
seductive nightmare. . . . With sensations so alive on the page,
you're constantly kept on your toes, attuned to the mania. You'll
ask, beguiled: What's really going on here?-- "Entertainment
Weekly"
A literary mystery that fans of Sarah Waters, Daphne Du Maurier,
and Shirley Jackson won't want to miss. . . . This high intrigue,
along with the inherent eeriness of the setting, makes Bitter
Orange a perfect fall read.-- "Criminal Element"
Exquisitely written and carefully paced, Bitter Orange imbues the
dis-ease and sickening sweetness of old-fashioned literary horror
with a new, modern flare . . . A haunting contemporary echo of
Shirley Jackson and Patricia Highsmith.-- "Shelf Awareness, starred
review"
Fuller is a master of propulsive action, making the ground spin as
each unreliable narrator takes center stage. Every measured
sentence builds on itself with the crumbling estate providing the
saturated backdrop for this ultimately macabre tale. Bitter Orange
offers a gripping and unsettling look at the ugly side of extreme
need and the desperate measures taken in the name of love.--
"Booklist (Starred Review)"
In her finely crafted psychological thriller Bitter Orange, the
devilish novelist gives us a sunny, summery, open backdrop that
nevertheless becomes a vise tightening around the throats of both
the main character and the reader. Formula and genre can themselves
be as suffocating as a coffin, but in such capable hands they
become freeing, reinvigorated, and compelling.-- "NPR"
In the vein of Shirley Jackson's bone-chilling The Haunting of Hill
House, Fuller's disturbing novel will entrap readers in its twisty
narrative, leaving them to reckon with what is real and what is
unreal. An intoxicating, unsettling masterpiece.-- "Kirkus (Starred
Review)"
Like Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, Bitter Orange sings, enchants,
haunts. If not for Claire Fuller's stunning language and mastery of
control, I'd have succumbed to the temptation to blaze through
these pages just to see how the suspense resolves. A beautiful
novel.--Daniel Magariel, author of One of the Boys
Lovely and lush prose that only adds to the sense of dread
pervading the novel . . . Bitter Orange is an absorbing exploration
of the many lies we tell to others--and to ourselves.-- "Vulture,
Best Crime Books of the Year"
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