Eden Close - Anita Shreve

Eden Close is the second Anita Shreve novel I have read after being very impressed with Strange Fits of Passion. I was not at all disappointed with this latest read although I was expecting something a bit different as mistakenly, before I read it, I was expecting Eden Close to be a place whereas in fact she is a young woman. The story is set in a small town in America and is in the present day although you have to bear in mind that this book was written in 1989. It does quite often have flashbacks to events that happened fifteen years before and these are crucial to what happens to the characters later on. A brief summary of the story is that ...

I got this book free with Woman and Home - which I bought for the first and last time – because it seemed like too good a bargain to pass up. To be honest I didn’t have high hopes of either. However, I was pleasantly surprised ( - by the book, at least. I’m not convinced about Woman and Home). At the time I hadn’t heard of Anita Shreve, but I’ve learned that she is now a well established author with two best-sellers to her name: The Pilot’s Wife and Fortune’s Rocks. She lives in New England and teaches writing. Eden Close is her first novel, and it was published in 1989. The book unpeels the story like the ...