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Once divorced and once widowed, twenty-nine-year-old Sydney is trying to regain her footing when she takes a job tutoring the daughter of a well-to-do couple at their stunning seaside cottage. But when the family’s two grown sons arrive – both of them handsome, competitive, and enraptured by Sydney – the fragile existence she has rebuilt is threatened. With the subtle language and brilliant insight that have made her beloved of readers the world over, Anita Shreve weaves a novel about the longing for family and the supreme courage it takes to love.
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1. “Shreve writes crisp, evocative sentences that can pierce like shards of fine glass.”
---------Entertainment Weekly
2. “A thoughtful, tightly woven meditation on marriage and mortality, family devotion and dysfunction.”
---------USA Today
3. “A harrowing and heart-wrenching story about the impossible decision one woman must make.”
---------Cosmopolitan
4. “A dramatic domestic tale…Shreve’s fans will not be disappointed.”
---------Seattle Times
作者簡介
Anita Shreve is the critically acclaimed author of twelve previous novels, including A Wedding in December, The Pilot's Wife, which was a selection of Oprah's Book Club, and The Weight of Water, which was a finalist for England's Orange Prize. She lives in Massachusetts.