Bitter Orange By Claire Fuller
Bitter Orange By Claire Fuller Frances Jellico is staying at Lyntons, a dilapidated English country house, doing surveys for the estate's new owner. While staying in the attic there she finds a couple is staying in the rooms below hers and that she can spy on them in her bathroom through a hole in the floor. Cara, the young woman is troubled and tells Frances stories about her past with the young man, Peter, as well as how she met Peter, the child she had )which she claimed was by immaculate conception), and other assorted personal details about her relationship with Peter. Peter is also being paid by the estate's owner to catalogue the contents of the house and to make architectural reports about it. He and Frances become fast friends as well, and Frances starts to think their is something more to Peter's attentions. Near the house is a church Frances attends and she wonders at the vicar, Victor, who seems not to be happy in his current role and talks to her about Lyntons...