Where or When? - Anita Shreve

The Weight of Water - Anita Shreve

The weight of water by Anita Shreve The story is set in 1873 where there are two women who live on the Isles of Shoals. These were a group of Islands which you can find off the coast of New Hampshire. These women were murdered in a very brutal way. There was a third woman who actually survived and was found near a cave in a very distress way. Then the book jumps a century later to when we get introduced to a character called Jean who works has a photographer and tries to piece together these murders and why it happened. So she and her husband Thomas went back to the Island and also her five year old daughter Billie.. The details of these murders in the 19th ...

The Weight of Water - Anita Shreve

The weight of water by Anita Shreve The story is set in 1873 where there are two women who live on the Isles of Shoals. These were a group of Islands which you can find off the coast of New Hampshire. These women were murdered in a very brutal way. There was a third woman who actually survived and was found near a cave in a very distress way. Then the book jumps a century later to when we get introduced to a character called Jean who works has a photographer and tries to piece together these murders and why it happened. So she and her husband Thomas went back to the Island and also her five year old daughter Billie.. The details of these murders in the 19th ...

The Last Time They Met - Anita Shreve

Isn’t it wonderful when you thoroughly enjoy a book by an author new to you, and then realise they’ve written lots of others? Anita Shreve lives and works in New England, as a teacher of creative writing, so hopefully there will be many more to come. I read this book on holiday, and was totally engrossed. It is a well-written story which describes the coming together of the two main characters, Linda Fallon and Thomas Janes, at various times and places. The reader is first introduced to them at a writers’ festival in Toronto, twenty six years after they first met. Another meeting takes place in Kenya in the 1970s, and eventually we learn how they ...

The Last Time They Met - Anita Shreve

Isn’t it wonderful when you thoroughly enjoy a book by an author new to you, and then realise they’ve written lots of others? Anita Shreve lives and works in New England, as a teacher of creative writing, so hopefully there will be many more to come. I read this book on holiday, and was totally engrossed. It is a well-written story which describes the coming together of the two main characters, Linda Fallon and Thomas Janes, at various times and places. The reader is first introduced to them at a writers’ festival in Toronto, twenty six years after they first met. Another meeting takes place in Kenya in the 1970s, and eventually we learn how they ...

The Last Time They Met - Anita Shreve

was my first Anita Shreve book. I live what I call a fast life, generally not taking time out to appreciate things. This book is wonderully sensual, not in a romantic or sexual manner, but in the way it describes tastes and smells. You end up submerged in the atmosphere of the location. The characters are wonderfully ...

The Last Time They Met - Anita Shreve

was my first Anita Shreve book. I live what I call a fast life, generally not taking time out to appreciate things. This book is wonderully sensual, not in a romantic or sexual manner, but in the way it describes tastes and smells. You end up submerged in the atmosphere of the location. The characters are wonderfully ...