Anita Shreve's hauntingly beautiful #1 bestseller and Oprah's Book Club selection about tragedy, grief, betrayal, and the 'impossibility of knowing another person.'
As a pilot's wife, Kathryn has learned to expect both intense exhilaration and long periods alone, but nothing has prepared her for a late-night knock that lets her know her husband has died in a crash.
Until now, Kathryn Lyons's life has been peaceful if unextraordinary: a satisfying job teaching high school in the New England mill town of her childhood; a picture-perfect home by the ocean; a precocious,...

Anita Shreve's hauntingly beautiful #1 bestseller and Oprah's Book Club selection about tragedy, grief, betrayal, and the 'impossibility of knowing another person.'
As a pilot's wife, Kathryn has learned to expect both intense exhilaration and long periods alone, but nothing has prepared her for a late-night knock that lets her know her husband has died in a crash.
Until now, Kathryn Lyons's life has been peaceful if unextraordinary: a satisfying job teaching high school in the New England mill town of her childhood; a picture-perfect home by the ocean; a precocious,...

This story of forbidden passion is set in Nazi-occupied Belgium during World War II. A young American pilot is downed behind enemy lines where he is rescued by a farmer & his wife. As the young housewife tends to the pilot they begin a love affair.

This is a tale of love, loss and betrayal, as Kathryn Lyons, the pilot's wife of the title, comes to terms with her husband's death and discovers secrets about his past. Anita Shreve is the author of five previous novels, including The Weight of Water.

Andrew is drawn again to the blind girl of his youth, drawn to save her from the neglect she has endured for 17 years without him. But first he must discover the truth about the night when Eden was blinded by the same gun that killed his father.

This is a tale of obsessive love, hidden motivations, and the endless resonance of guilt. Jean is a photographer sent to Smuttynose Island, off the coast of New Hampshire, to report on a legendary crime.

14-year-old Olympia Biddeford is spending the summer with her parents at Fortune's Rocks. She is swiftly despatched to Boston when it's discovered she has embarked on an affair with a friend of her father's, but Olympia is already pregnant.

Linda Fallon and Thomas Janes meet up again after 26 years. Theirs is a story bound by the irresistible pull of true passion - a love which begins in the 1960s, is rekindled in the 1970s, and which is about to play out its astonishing final episode.

When an English biographer, Mr Moxom, sets out to write a story on the Rose Street massacre of 1933, he interviews elderly Honora Beecher, one of the few remaining survivors, whose husband was involved.

It is a fire in a New Hampshire hotel that brings Nicholas Van Tassel and Etna Bliss together - two strangers grateful to have escaped the burning building with their lives. Many years later he recounts their courtship and their time together.