A Novel. Margaret and Patrick have been married just a few months when they set off on what they hope will be a great adventure-a year living in Kenya. Margaret quickly realizes there is a great deal she doesn't know about the complex mores of her new home, and about her own husband. A British couple invites the newlyweds to join on a climbing expedition to Mount Kenya, and...
A novel At an inn in the Berkshire Mountains, seven former schoolmates gather for a wedding. Bridget has agreed to marry Bill. It is Bill who has brought everyone together for an astonishing weekend of revelation and recrimination, forgiveness and redemption.
A novel. Body Surfing opens with an evocative description of a beach house and a woman swimming, surfing her body on the ocean’s waves. Anita Shreve’s latest novel picks up on previous themes she has explored — -love, loss, marriage, the ocean — -but the story of Sydney, a young woman who is lost, and finds herself the tutor to a teenage daughter at her family’s summer beach...
Back Bay Books, 2005. — ISBN10: 9780316010672; ISBN13: 978-0316010672. What makes a family? That's what twelve-year-old Nicky Dillon wonders after she and her widowed father discover a wailing abandoned baby in the snow-filled woods near their New Hampshire home. Through the days that follow, the Dillons and an unexpected visitor who soon turns up at their door-a young woman...
A brilliant and beautiful contemporary novel about love and memory from the author of the bestselling novels All He Ever Wanted and The Pilots Wife The events of a December afternoon, during which a father and his daughter find an abandoned infant in the snow, will forever alter the 11-year-old girls understanding of the world and the adults who inhabit it: a father who has...
A novel. A rookie paramedic pulls a young woman alive from her totaled car, a first rescue that begins a lifelong tangle of love and wreckage. Sheila Arsenault is a gorgeous enigma-streetwise and tough-talking, with haunted eyes, fierce desires, and a never-look-back determination. Peter Webster, as straight an arrow as they come, falls for her instantly and entirely. Soon...
A novel. From the first sentence, Anita Shreve draws in the reader with the quiet poetry of her narrative voice... Resistance is a turn-off-the-phone, put-the-kids-in-bed-early, stay-up-tilltwo- in-the-morning-on-a-work-night reading experience. —Mary Gillis, Detroit Free Press In beautiful, unpretentious language, Shreve embarks on a complex journey exploring the human...
A novel. With all the narrative power and emotional immediacy that have made her novels acclaimed international bestsellers, Anita Shreve unfolds a richly engaging tale of marriage, money, and troubled times-the story of a pair of young newlyweds who, setting out to build a life together in a derelict beach house on the Atlantic coast, soon discover how threatening the world...
A novel At a New England boarding school, a sex scandal is about to break. Even more shocking than the sexual acts themselves is the fact that they were caught on videotape. A Pandora's box of revelations, the tape triggers a chorus of voices-those of the men, women, teenagers, and parents involved in the scandal-that details the ways in which lives can be derailed or destroyed...
A Novel. From the last time Linda and Thomas meet, at a charmless hotel in a distant city, to the moment, thirty-five years earlier, when a chance encounter on a rocky beach binds them fatefully together, this hypnotically compelling novel unfolds a tale of intense passion, drama, and suspense. The Last Time They Met is a singularly ambitious and accomplished work by one of...
A Novel. A pilot's wife is taught to be prepared for the late-night knock at the door. But when Kathryn Lyons receives word that a plan flown by her husband, Jack, has exploded near the coast of Ireland, she confronts the unfathomable-one startling revelation at a time. Soon drawn into a maelstrom of publicity fueled by rumors that Jack led a secret life, Kathryn sets out to...
A Novel. "I wonder this: If you take a woman and push her to the edge, how will she behave?" The question is posed by Jean, a photographer, who arrives on Smuttynose Island, off the coast of New Hampshire, to research a century-old crime. As she immerses herself in the details of the case-an outburst of passion that resulted in the deaths of two women-Jean herself enters...
A novel. Leafing through his newspaper's literary supplement one day, Charles Callahan, a middle-aged insurance broker, spots a photograph of his first love, Siân Richards. Married, faithfully if not happily, with three daughters and a struggling business, Charles writes to Siân, a published poet, also married and mother of two children. Siân writes back, and as their...
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