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FROM THE COSTA AWARD-WINNING, WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF UNSETTLED GROUND'A stunning piece of speculative fiction' The i'A haunting novel about love, survival and everything in between ... One to get excited about' Stylist, Best Modern Dystopia---Humans are useless at learning from their mistakes. We just have to keep making new plans.When Neffy wakes up from an uneasy sleep in a hospital bed, nothing is as it should be. There is no f...

Wiltshire, im Südwesten Englands: Die Zwillinge Jeanie und Julius leben mit ihrer Mutter Dot am Rande der Gesellschaft in einem windschiefen Cottage. Jeanie kann nicht lesen und nicht schreiben, im Dorf verkauft sie, was sie in ihrem wilden Garten anbaut.Julius kämpft sich mit Gelegenheitsjobs durch. Ihr Leben ist einfach, sie haben nicht viel, aber was sie haben, gehört ihnen. Doch dann stirbt Dot und es kommen Geheimnisse über das Cottage, d...

Jeanie and Julius are 51 years old and live with their mother in the middle of the English countryside. They do not have internet, television or bank accounts. They don't have a partner. They also have no father: he died when they were children. They grow vegetables in their garden and play music together at night. But when Dot dies suddenly, all the things they've always been without become more essential every day. The twins face an unknown ...

From the Costa-Winning, Women's Prize-shortlisted author of Unsettled Ground: a gripping, haunting novel about human need and survival, for readers of Never Let me Go and Station ElevenNeffy is a young woman running away from grief and guilt and the one big mistake that has cost her her career. When she answers the call to volunteer in a controlled vaccine trial, it offers a way for her to pay off her many debts and, perhaps, to begin to make ...

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Neffy is a young woman running away from grief and guilt and the one big mistake that has cost her her career. When she answers the call to volunteer in a controlled vaccine trial, it offers her a way to pay off her many debts and, perhaps, to make up for the past.But when the London streets below her window fall silent, and all external communications cease, only Neffy and four other volunteers remain in the unit. With food running out, and a...

Winner of the 2021 Costa Novel Award Finalist for the Women's Prize in Fiction Named a Best Book of the Month by Entertainment Weekly, PopSugar, Bustle, Chicago Review of Books, PureWow, a Best Book of Summer by Daily Beast and one of Good Housekeeping's Best Books of 2021 "Full of dramatic twists and turns right up until its moving, beautiful end." --NPR Books

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So sharply, so utterly brilliant that I found myself holding my breath while reading it, dazzled by Fuller's mastery and precision' LAUREN GROFF, author of Fates and Furies__________________________________________________________________________What if the life you have always known is taken from you in an instant? What would you do to get it back?Twins Jeanie and Julius have always been different from other people. At 51 years old, they stil...

Peggy Hillcoat ist acht Jahre alt, als ihr Vater James mit ihr zu einer langen Reise aufbricht. Was als Abenteuerurlaub beginnt, entpuppt sich nach einem heftigen Gewitter als ihre einzige Chance. Denn der Rest der Welt ist untergegangen, erzählt der Vater, der als Prepper längst auf das finstere Ende vorbereitet ist. Eine verfallene Hütte im Bayerischen Wald wird Peggys Zuhause. Ein stummes Klavier, das ihr Vater baut, der einzige Halt inmitt...

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What if the life you have always known is taken from you in an instant? What would you do to get it back?Twins Jeanie and Julius have always been different from other people. At 51 years old, they still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation and poverty. Inside the walls of their old cottage they make music, and in the garden they grow (and sometimes kill) everything they need for sustenance.But when Dot dies suddenly, threats to thei...

What if the life you have always known is taken from you in an instant? What would you do to get it back? Twins Jeanie and Julius have always been different from other people. At 51 years old, they still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation and poverty. Inside the walls of their old cottage they make music, and in the garden they grow (and sometimes kill) everything they need for sustenance. But when Dot dies suddenly, threats to th...

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.

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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. Bitter Orange is her third novel. Her first novel, Our Endless Numbered Days, won the Desmond Elliott Prize. She has an MA in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of Winchester and lives in Hampshire with her husband and...

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.

In the summer of 1969, writer Frances and the glamorous, hedonistic Peter and Cara are staying in the same cottage and soon spending every day together. As Frances becomes increasingly entangled in their lives, the boundaries between truth and lies, right and wrong, begin to blur. A small crime brings on a bigger one: a crime so terrible that it will brand all their lives forever.