An interesting novel of what can happen when you make a rush decision without thinking it through and it destroys other lives. Good read.

The story of a spirited young woman who falls into a passionate, illicit affair with a much older man. You do not want this novel to end. It's hard to put down.

Fantastic book, with many thought-provoking subjects within it. Would be a great book-club book! I loved it. One of Shreve's best.

Keeps you on the edge of your seat. A splendid romance novel.

Another great book from Anita Shreve. Alittle tought to get into at the beginning but once I did I couldn't put the book down.

Another fabulous Anita Shreve page turner with a heart wrenching love story that is smart and romantic.

The time is the turn of the last century, the setting a rocky New Hampshire coastline resort area nicknamed "Fortune's Rocks." Olympia Biddeford, age 15, is walking the beach, feeling the first stirrings of her womanhood. The strong-willed daughter of an upstanding Boston couple, she soon "learns of desire" as she begins a passionate affair with a married writer, John Haskell, three times her age. From the moment they meet (he is a visiting friend of her father's), they experience a sexual sparkAOlympia feels "liquid" in his presence. Soon, they fall into sinful trysting. Shreve (The Pilot's Wife) serves up these opening events with breathless immediacy. Once the plot gets a chance to developAOlympia gets pregnant, gives up child, fights to get child backAit settles down considerably, turning into a modernized The Scarlet Letter, a tale of a woman attaining feminist independence by living outside her period's societal mores.

The story of a spirited young women who falls into an affair with an older man-with cataclysmic results.

Starts slow but a great read.

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