Bitter Orange: A Novel

An NPR Best Book of the Year

“Unsettling and eerie, Bitter Orange is an ideal chiller.” ―Time Magazine

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.

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 sum...