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Bitter Orange
Claire Fuller | 2018 | Fiction & Poetry, Mystery
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Very eerie tale involving three delusional housemates. Each delusional in their own right. Ending was a total surprise for me. (0 more)
One of the housemates story jumped around so often in her re-telling of said events, it was difficult to keep up and understand what she was saying. (0 more)
Bittersweet Bitter Orange
Bitter Orange has three main characters and the story is told from their narrative.

Francis Jellico who has never left home, much less her mother's side, until this year when her mother passed. Even after her mother's passing, Francis kept the death a secret for at least a month until the stench got too great.

Francis inherited her mother's eccentricities which included wearing her dead mother's undergarments even tho they did not fit and also a locker her mother wore that had a generic picture in it. Her mother had never put Francis' picture in.

Cara- young, sexy, assertive, self assured, talkative and friendly. Her glaring sin was she had problems with remembering which was truth and which were lies and keeping the truths and the lies straight so basically , she didn't make any sense most of the time.

Peter - older than Cara and very much in love with her but not liking her much on most days. He seemed genuinely caring but also as if he would like to break away from her. He also had a good idea for property value and costs of goods...especially antiques and knew what to sell to whom for what price point.

Basically, these three characters have been hired by an American investor to catalog the items in a mansion the investor had bought as well as to catalog the grounds and flower gardens. It is believed the investor plans to sell the property.

The mansion is large with many spacious rooms and bathrooms but only two of the bathrooms actually work. For some unknown reason ,Frances has been put in the maids quarters in the attic and the couple on the first floor with a mini suite at their disposal,.

As the three begin working together , each performing their job they soon begin hanging out together after hours, eating and smoking together.

This is where the story starts getting twisted. There seems to be a bit of jealousy between Cara and Peter over Francis. Cara gets jealous if Peter spends too much time with her, even if they are working and Francis misinterprets Peter's friendship.

All in all, this was a great read. It really kept me on the edge of my seat and the ending totally surprised me.

Bitter Orange: A bittersweet story set in 1969.
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