Anita Shreve Knihy

Ako sa zachová žena, ktorú zahnali až na pokraj? Nedostatok súkromia na plachetnici obývanej dvoma manželskými pármi pôsobí spolu s prírodným živlom ako katalyzátor reakcií s tragickými následkami.

Žena pilota musí stále rátať s tým, že jej v noci zaklopú na dvere so zlou správou. No keď sa Kathryn Lyonsová dozvie, že dopravné lietadlo pilotované jej manželom explodovalo, ocitne sa zoči-voči šokujúcim odhaleniam. Vtiahnutá do víru obrovskej publicity živenej chýrmi o manželovom dvojitom živote sa odhodlá overiť ich pravdivosť, nech to stojí čokoľvek. Okruh otázok, na ktoré hľadá odpoveď na cestách medzi americkým, anglickým a írskym pobrežím, sa však skôr rozširuje, ako zužuje.

Twenty years ago a violent act shattered Eden Close's world. Now a former neighbor, Andrew, returns for his mother's funeral and to find out what really happened to Eden

The year is 1929 and Honora Beecher and her husband, Sexton, are just settling into a new marriage and a cottage on the coast of New Hampshire. While Honora fixes up the derelict house and searches for bits of sea glass on the beach, Sexton risks everything they own to buy the house they both love. Along with millions of other Americans, he is blindsided by the stock market crash and finds himself penniless. The only work he can find is at a nearby mill, where a labour conflict is erupting into violence. Shaken by forces they scarcely understand, Honora and Sexton try to build a marriage and home while overwhelmed by passions of every kind. Writing with the power and immediacy that have made her novels bestsellers, Shreve unfolds interlocking lives, each with its own share of love, loss and challenge. This is another gripping and unforgettable story of the human heart from one of the most accomplished novelists of our time.

"A marriage is always two intersecting stories." This realization comes perhaps too late to the husband of Etna Bliss-a man whose obsession with his young wife begins at the moment of their first meeting, as he helps Etna and her companions escape from a fire in a hotel restaurant, and culminates in a marriage doomed by secrets and betrayal. Written with the intelligence and grace that are the hallmarks of Anita Shreve's bestselling novels, this gripping tale of desire, jealousy, and loss is peopled by unforgettable characters as real as the emotions that bring them together.

Hauled in a cart to a field hospital in northern France in March 1916, an American woman wakes from unconsciousness to the smell of gas gangrene, the sounds of men in pain, and an almost complete loss of memory: she knows only that she can drive an ambulance, she can draw, and her name is Stella Bain. A stateless woman in a lawless country, Stella embarks on a journey to reconstruct her life. Suffering an agonising and inexplicable array of symptoms, she finds her way to London. There, Dr August Bridge, a cranial surgeon turned psychologist, is drawn to tracking her amnesia to its source. What brutality was she fleeing when she left the tranquil seclusion of a New England college campus to serve on the Front; for what crime did she need to atone - and whom did she leave behind? Vivid, intense and gripping, packed with secrets and revelations, The Lives of Stella Bain is at once a ravishing love story and an intense psychological mystery.

The Weight of Water On Smuttynose Island, off the coast of New Hampshire, more than a century ago, two Norwegian immigrant women were brutally murdered. A third woman survived by hiding in a cave. In 1995, Jean, a photographer, is sent on an assignment to shoot a photo essay about the legendary crime where unearths letters written by Maren, the sole survivor of the murder spree. Soon her interest becomes an obsession with the ancient story - leading to unrecoverable consequences. Resistance As the wife of a Resistance member in German-occupied Belgium, Claire Daussois has grown used to hiding strange men in her attic. But when the B-17 bomber that crash-lands outside Claire's village it contains the man who will be both the last and the most significant of the attic's residents: US Air Force pilot Ted Brice. He is found by ten-year-old Jean Benoit who realises that Claire is the pilot's only hope of survival.

A tale of impossible love in Nazi-occupied Belgium, where forbidden passions have catastrophic consequences. Claire Daussois, the wife of a Belgian resistance worker, shelters a wounded American bomber pilot in a secret attic hideaway. As she nurses him back to health, Claire is drawn into an affair that seems strong enough to conquer all--until the brutal realities of war intrude, shattering every idea she ever had about love, trust, and betrayal. Resistance is a tender but tragic love story, told with the same narrative grace and keen eye for human emotion that have distinguished all of Anita Shreve's cherished bestsellers.

Olympia Biddeford's passionate affair with a married man nearly three times her age, results in her being exiled from society and forces her to make a new life for herself.

Long before Liane Moriarty captivated readers with her tales, Shreve was already enhancing domestic dramas, and she continues to do so with remarkable skill. In this gripping new novel from the best-selling author of The Pilot's Wife, the story unfolds in 1947, amidst raging fires along the coast of Maine after a summer drought. Grace Holland, five months pregnant, is left to protect her two toddlers when her unpredictable husband, Gene, joins the volunteers battling the flames. Alongside her best friend Rosie and Rosie's children, Grace watches in horror as their homes are consumed by fire, ultimately seeking refuge in the ocean. As dawn breaks, they miraculously survive but face a new reality: homeless and penniless, they must navigate an uncertain future. With Gene's fate unknown, Grace is thrust into a world where she must rebuild her life from scratch, finding work and a home to support her children. Amidst profound loss, she discovers unexpected joys and freedoms that her previous life with Gene never allowed. Just as she begins to embrace her new independence, an unthinkable event tests her bravery like never before.