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It happened one summer: Bitter Orange, by Claire Fuller, reviewed

11 August 2018

9:00 AM

11 August 2018

9:00 AM

Approaching her death, and the end of Claire Fuller’s third novel, Frances Jellico — for the most part a stickler for order and rules — admits that ‘the truth isn’t always the right way’. A wasting disease has given her dementia, ‘but is kind enough to leave the summer of 1969 intact’.

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