Body Surfing - Anita Shreve

Light on Snow - Anita Shreve

Anita Shreve is an author that I enjoy, so I chose Light on Snow from some books my daughter was lending me for my holiday reading. Anita Shreve has written several brilliant novels and this was described as her most powerful novel. The Independent on Sunday wrote "that it touches the very deepest human emotions.....perceptive, gripping and ultimately exhilarating, this is a very fine book indeed." It is set in a country area in New England, in winter time, just before Christmas and written by Nicky looking back to when she was 12 years old and her father had left his job and their home and moved to a house miles from anyone when he lost his wife and baby ...

Light on Snow - Anita Shreve

Anita Shreve is an author that I enjoy, so I chose Light on Snow from some books my daughter was lending me for my holiday reading. Anita Shreve has written several brilliant novels and this was described as her most powerful novel. The Independent on Sunday wrote "that it touches the very deepest human emotions.....perceptive, gripping and ultimately exhilarating, this is a very fine book indeed." It is set in a country area in New England, in winter time, just before Christmas and written by Nicky looking back to when she was 12 years old and her father had left his job and their home and moved to a house miles from anyone when he lost his wife and baby ...

Light on Snow - Anita Shreve

I've just finished reading this book as recommended by a friend, and I've really enjoyed it. The book tells the story of a 12-year-old girl called Nicole, who moves to New England with her father following the tragic death in a car accident of her mother & baby sister. They have bought a house in the forest away from the nearest town, & her father takes her out snow-shoeing one evening when they make a shocking discovery in the woodland of a new-born baby wrapped in a sleeping bag. The baby is still alive, so they rush her to the nearest hospital & so begins the main plot of the book. The author writes the novel in the present tense, and very successfully ...

Light on Snow - Anita Shreve

I've just finished reading this book as recommended by a friend, and I've really enjoyed it. The book tells the story of a 12-year-old girl called Nicole, who moves to New England with her father following the tragic death in a car accident of her mother & baby sister. They have bought a house in the forest away from the nearest town, & her father takes her out snow-shoeing one evening when they make a shocking discovery in the woodland of a new-born baby wrapped in a sleeping bag. The baby is still alive, so they rush her to the nearest hospital & so begins the main plot of the book. The author writes the novel in the present tense, and very successfully ...

A Wedding in December - Anita Shreve

Anita Shreve Anita Shreve is a writer I first discovered with her book ‘The Pilot’s Wife’ – a scarily prescient novel about a plane crash in which there is a terrorist sub-plot. Reading her 2005 novel ‘A Wedding in December’, the first she wrote after the attacks of September 11th, it was strange to see her return to those events as a subtle circumstantial sub-topic of a much broader tale of private and public loss and grief. Shreve isn’t one of the writers for whom I’d rush out to the bookshop with my credit card burning a hole in my pocket out of sheer excitement to have a new book as soon as possible (I know it’s sad but there are some writers that DO get me that ...

A Wedding in December - Anita Shreve

Anita Shreve Anita Shreve is a writer I first discovered with her book ‘The Pilot’s Wife’ – a scarily prescient novel about a plane crash in which there is a terrorist sub-plot. Reading her 2005 novel ‘A Wedding in December’, the first she wrote after the attacks of September 11th, it was strange to see her return to those events as a subtle circumstantial sub-topic of a much broader tale of private and public loss and grief. Shreve isn’t one of the writers for whom I’d rush out to the bookshop with my credit card burning a hole in my pocket out of sheer excitement to have a new book as soon as possible (I know it’s sad but there are some writers that DO get me that ...