Anita Shreve...writes with such care and knowing that it's impossible not to be consumed by her storytelling, her beautiful sentences always exceeding the sum of their words . . . Shreve is a literary talent for all, and this novel - up there with her award-winning The Weight of Water - is flaming good The Times
Anita Shreve is the author of nine other critically acclaimed and bestselling novels, all published in Abacus paperback.