Hess AM, Sullivan DL (March 2005). "Potential for toxicity with use of bitter orange extract and guarana for weight loss". The Annals of Pharmacotherapy. 39 (3): 574–5. doi: 10.1345/aph.1E249. PMID 15657116. S2CID 28294405. Ms Frances Jellico, a 59-year-old woman, lay dying in an unspecified institution attended by care assistants and a vicar. The latter is there both to offer comfort and to extract a confession from her for a wrongdoing yet unknown. In the fog of her fast failing memory, Frances retains vivid recollections of a simmering summer in 1969, twenty years ago, which changed her life forever.

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https://www.npr.org/2018/10/11/655880... (JimZ: another good review….likens it to Turn of the Screw…now I am really stoopid ☹ ☹ ) Jokha al-Harthi (Arabic: جوخة الحارثي‎; born July 1978) is an Omani writer and academic. She was educated in Oman and in the United Kingdom. She obtained her PhD in classical Arabic literature from Edinburgh University. She is currently an associate professor in the Arabic department at Sultan Qaboos University. The best part of this book is the atmosphere that Claire Fuller creates with her prose. This book gave me the creeps which I wast totally not expecting. It was so eerie and I got a haunted house vibe from it at times. Fuller uses lush language to create an astonishing portrait of a crumbling English countryside mansion. She really makes the setting come alive and gives it a character of its own.

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I enjoyed this book immensely, became lost in the characters story, never knowing quite what was going on, who was telling the truth, and what was being hidden. A key theme is obsession and even though right in the beginning we know how one character ends up, we don't know why, we do know these type of stories seldom end well. It seems, unless I missed something, that a few threads remained unanswered. Surprisingly, that didn't at all dim my appreciation for this wonderful work. Bitter orange may have serious interactions with drugs such as statins (to lower cholesterol), nifedipines (to lower blood pressure), some anti-anxiety drugs, some antihistamines, etc., in a similar way to grapefruit (see grapefruit–drug interactions). [37] Other uses [ edit ] Bitter Orange held me guilty enthralled like a voyeur peeping into the private lives of strangers, often with my heart palpitating with anxiety. Little work is actually getting done at Lyntons as the trio dines and relaxes, and Cara tells stories upon stories to Frances that are often missing details or include contradicting information. As the reader, Cara’s stories were the most tedious, unenjoyable part of the book and I found myself skimming through them after the first few.

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Henry, Diana (2012). Salt sugar smoke: how to preserve fruit, vegetables, meat and fish. London: Mitchell Beazley. ISBN 978-1845336752. I had no idea what a haunting, creative storyline this would be that would find itself hidden behind that gorgeous cover. Claire Fuller carves her words into a deftly atmospheric telling surrounded by the lush English countryside. As the reader leans in, the fragrance of tart, over-ripened fruit fills the air. And there are plenty of sharp-edged seeds hiding within the fleshy pulp.The work that the trio were hired for is besides the point. It got them there. It’s everything else that happens that propels the reader to keep reading.

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Citrus × aurantium L. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online . Retrieved 17 April 2023. A perfect heatwave read, Claire Fuller’s third novel tells the suspenseful story of the profligate summer of 1969 spent at a dilapidated English country house. Frances Jellico, who seems to be on her deathbed in a care home, recalls for the chaplain, her friend Victor Wylde, the August 20 years ago when she stayed at Lyntons, a neoclassical mansion in Hampshire, to report on the garden architecture for the new American owner, a Mr. Liebermann. Frances was an awkward 39-year-old at that time; having spent 10 years caring for her ill mother up to her recent death, she’d never had a romantic relationship or even a real friendship. So when she got to Lyntons and met Peter Robertson, who was to survey the house and its fittings, and his girlfriend Cara Calace, a melodramatic Anglo-Irish woman who tried to pass as Italian, Frances instantly latched on to their attractively hedonistic lifestyle and felt, for the first time, as if she had people who cared about her and genuinely liked her. Citrus × aurantium var. myrtifolia is sometimes considered a separate species, Citrus myrtifolia, the myrtle-leaved orange. The ' Chinotto' cultivar is used to make the Italian soda beverage also called Chinotto. [18] It was introduced to Florida and the Bahamas from Spain, [3] and wild trees are found near small streams in generally secluded and wooded areas. But there are noises, smells, sounds, and some odd sightings. It’s a setting that is more gothic than Gatsby, but the mystery and intrigue of this one didn’t hit the mark for me. I enjoyed Swimming Lessons last year more than some other readers, and I'm sure there are others who will really enjoy this one. I still liked her writing, which ranges from poetic to amusingly insightful. And I did feel for Frances, caught up as she was by her fantastic new friends.

A dying woman’s memory of 1969, the summer in which she lived with a mysterious couple in a crumbling English country house, is delivered with a perpetual air of dreaminess. Our Endless Numbered Days, the first of her five novels, was published in the UK by Penguin Books, and in the United States ( Tin House) and Canada ( House of Anansi Press). It appeared in translation in a further 12 countries. Swimming Lessons was published by Penguin (UK) in 2017, and was also published in the United States, Canada and a further 6 countries. Bitter Orange, was published in 2018 by Penguin (UK) and in the United States and Canada, and was/will be published in a further 6 countries. Unsettled Ground was published in 2021 in the UK, the US and Canada, and was/will be published in a further 14 countries. Claire Fuller wins debut-novel Desmond Elliott Prize". BBC News. 1 July 2015 . Retrieved 2 July 2015. Arriving at the house, Frances is surprised by company, in the form of handsome, raffish Peter, employed to do the equivalent job inside the house, and the glamorous Italian-speaking woman she takes to be his wife, Cara. In fact, Peter already has a wife, but he and Cara are bound to each other by a shadowy, undeclared trauma, which slowly unspools as the trio become closer to one another. Bitter Orange Tree tells the story of Zuhur, an Omani student at a British university who is caught between the past and the present. As she attempts to form friendships and assimilate in Britain, she reflects on the relationships that have been central to her life. Most prominent is her bond with Bint Amir, a woman she has always thought of as her grandmother, who passed away just after Zuhur left the Arabian Peninsula. Bint Amir was not, we learn, related to Zuhur by blood, but by an emotional connection far stronger.

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Bitter orange, sour orange, Seville orange, bigarade orange, or marmalade orange is ( sensu stricto) the citrus tree Citrus × aurantium [a] and its fruit. It is native to Southeast Asia and has been spread by humans to many parts of the world. [3] It is probably a cross between the pomelo, Citrus maxima, and the mandarin orange, Citrus reticulata.

Bitter Orange (2018): Frances Jellico is dying and remembers the summer of 1969, when she was commissioned to survey the follies in the garden of Lyntons – a decrepit and almost derelict country house. Living there in the attic for a month or so, she meets Cara and Peter who are staying in the rooms below hers. As Frances falls under her new friends' spell and she learns their stories, the house offers up its secrets, until her life is changed forever. 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.