酸橙 Bitter Orange Claire Fuller

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 288 pages

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Imprint:Penguin Books Ltd

ISBN:9780241983461

Published:2 May 2019

Classifications:Crime & mystery, Thriller / suspense

Weight:204g

Dimensions:202 x 140 x 18 (mm)

基本信息仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

这是一部令人目不暇接的小说。富勒以后世达芙妮-杜穆里埃（Daphne du Maurier）的自信，营造了一种窒息的威胁氛围"，《泰晤士报》（The Times），弗朗西丝-杰利科（Frances Jellico）濒临死亡。一个自称是牧师的人前来探望，希望能让她临终忏悔。

他想知道 1969 年那个致命的夏天到底发生了什么，当时弗朗西丝的任务是勘察一栋破旧的乡间别墅，她一眼就看到了卡拉和彼得这对迷人的波西米亚情侣。她回忆起他们在闷热的日子、奢华的晚餐和精心编织的谎言中建立的关系，以及她监视这对情侣的犹大洞。这些迹象从一开始就存在吗？还是无法避免犯罪的发生，使他们的生活像腐烂的水果一样四分五裂？

FROM THE WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF UNSETTLED GROUND'A compulsive page-turner. Fuller creates an atmosphere of simmering menace with all the assurance of a latter-day 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 sweltering days, lavish dinners and elaborate lies, and the Judas hole through which she would spy on the couple. Were the signs there right from the beginning? Or was it impossible to avoid the crime that split their lives open like rotten fruit? *** 'Bewitching, otherworldly .

. . full of dark foreboding.

Claire Fuller is a dazzling storyteller' Scotsman 'An atmospheric page-turner that speeds us towards a bloody climax of shocks and surprises' Irish Times 'Sinister and suspenseful, this gothic novel simmers with guilt, lust and envy' Mail on Sunday 'Multi-layered, lush, twisty and brilliantly clever' Sunday Mirror

作者简介

克莱尔-富勒 1967 年出生于英格兰牛津郡。她在温彻斯特艺术学院获得雕塑学位，之后长期从事市场营销工作，直到四十岁才开始写作。她曾写过四部小说： 《Unsettled Ground》在 2021 年获得科斯塔小说奖，并入围妇女小说奖；《Our Endless Numbered Days》获得德斯蒙德-埃利奥特奖；《Swimming Lessons》入围 RSL Encore 奖；《Bitter Orange》。她拥有温彻斯特大学创意与批评写作硕士学位，与丈夫住在汉普郡。

Claire Fuller was born in Oxfordshire, England, in 1967. She gained a degree in sculpture from Winchester School of Art, but went on to have a long career in marketing and didn't start writing until she was forty. She has written four previous novels: Unsettled Ground, which in 2021 won the Costa Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, Our Endless Numbered Days, which won the Desmond Elliott Prize, Swimming Lessons, which was shortlisted for the RSL Encore Award, and Bitter Orange. She has an MA in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of Winchester and lives in Hampshire with her husband.