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Book Review of The Weight of Water

The Weight of Water
The Weight of Water
Author: Anita Shreve
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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Here's the Author's Note from inside my book. I thought this might be helpful as to what the book is about:

During the night of March 5, 1873, two women, Norwegian immigrants, were murdered on the Isles of Schoals, a group of islands ten miles off the New Hampshire coast. a third woman survived, hiding in a sea cave until dawn. The passages of court testimony included in this book are taken verbatim from the transcript of The State Of Main v. Louis H.F. Wagner. Apart from recorded historical facts, the names, characters, places and incidents portrayed in this work are either the products of the author's imagination or, if real are used fictitiously. The matter of who killed Anethe and Karen Christiansen was settled in a court of law but has continued to be debated for more than a century.

I enjoyed this book.