Haunting and intriguing! I enjoyed this book very much!Very well written. I requested and read this book, because I loved The Pilot's Wife, The Weight of Water, Fortune's Rocks,The Last Time They Met, and Light On Snow. I guess you can say that I am an Anita Shreve fan! She is a brilliant author. She crafts a great tale. I love her books. Maybe you will, too! Great prose. Almost lyrical in her choice of words. Brilliant example of the art of the written word.

Great story! Some love and romance, some mystery and intrigue. Believable characters in semi-believable circumstances. Andy, Eden Close and her mother and father Edith and Jim are all intertwined in a rape, a murder, the blinding of a young girl and a small town in Kansas where everyone knows everyone elde's business, or think they do. I recommend this as an excellent read!

Probably my favorite Anita Shreve book. She's so great!

I got this book from this site for reading with my book discussion group. We had a great discussion of it. We not only liked the story, but were entranced by Shreves use of words and phrases, her description of physical surroundings, her insight into people's feelings, especially of those suffering emotional hurts. We were very impressed that it is her first novel. Others made a bigger 'splash' - The Pilot's Wife, etc. - but we think this one deserves lots of readers.

Andrew left home nearly twenty years ago, after a neighboring farm is devastated by disaster and heartbreak. Now he must pack up and sell his family home and is drawn to reconnect with his neighbor Eden Close, and find out what really happened that night.

Well written, emotional and poetic in a way

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I did not enjoy this one as much as some of the others written by Anita Shreve. As soon as I began to realize that this was a case of incest, it soured my taste for the storyline. I was a bit disappointed. I've read better by Anita.

A very different story. I haven't read another quite like it. I wouldn't recommend it to everyone, but some would enjoy it.

This book is fantastic! Although I may be biased because I am an Anita Shreve fan-a-holic!

I would highly recommend this book and all that Ms. Shreve writes!!

This was a great book. Had a hard time putting it down!

This was the second Anita Shreve I read after the Weight of Water. Those two are my favorites by this author.

this is a good book, fast read& very enjoyable!

Eden's story has the heightened emotions, the dark brooding atmosphere of a Southern gothic novel.

Like all her books, this is good story, good writing.

A good story for the most part, for a bit of it, I did speed reading to get more to the storyline I wanted to read

Another great book by Anita Shreve!

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