Лучшие книги Аниты Шрив

В стенах Академии Авери, престижного частного учебного заведения, разразился невероятный скандал. Трое студентов - и, надо отметить, лучших студентов академии - обвинены в сексуальном преступлении. Все события были сняты на видео, позже выложенное в Интернете. Кто же в действительности был жертвой происшедшего, а кто - виновником?

Еще недавно жизнь Кэтрин Лайонз была спокойной и размеренной: она преподавала историю в школе, растила дочь и считала, что счастлива в браке. Но однажды ночью к ней в дом постучали и сообщили о том, что ее муж, пилот Джек Лайонз, погиб в авиакатастрофе. Обстоятельства аварии расследуют, и постепенно выясняется, что Джек вел двойную жизнь...

Несостоявшаяся любовь красной нитью проходит сквозь жизнь талантливого поэта Томаса Джейнса. Двигаясь назад сквозь время, автор показывает, как один поступок, даже одно-единственное слово может повлиять на всю дальнейшую судьбу...

Сидни всего двадцать девять лет, но она уже успела познать страдания. Пытаясь обрести душевное равновесие, она становится репетитором в доме четы Эдвардсов на живописном побережье Нью-Хэмпшира.
Женщина постепенно находит свое место в этой семье. Когда на выходные приезжают двое взрослых сыновей Эдвардсов, они оба искренне восхищаются Сидни. Образовывается любовный треугольник, окутанный старым соперничеством и мучительными тайнами, в суть которых женщину не посвящают. Сидни чувствует, что она снова в опасности...

Какими же привлекательными бывают жизненные дороги, которые мы … отвергаем. Их разлучил случай перед окончанием школы. Какую же тайну хранят сердца одноклассников?

15-летняя Олимпия, юная красавица из семьи богатых аристократов, заводит бурный курортный роман с 40-летним женатым мужчиной, известным доктором и литератором, отцом четверых детей. Это вызвало беспрецендентный скандал в высшем свете...

Die winterlichen Berkshire Hills in Neuengland sind der Schauplatz einer besonderen Begegnung: Nach 27 Jahren treffen sich sieben alte Schulfreunde wieder, um die späte Hochzeit von Bill und Bridget zu feiern. Doch statt Ausgelassenheit herrscht angespannte Nervosität. Denn nun wird in ihnen allen das tragische Ereignis wieder lebendig, das sie seit ihrer Schulzeit auf schicksalhafte Weise miteinander verbindet und ihr Leben für immer verändert hat.

Margaret and Patrick have been married just a few months when they set off on what they hope will be a great adventure-a year living in Kenya. Margaret quickly realizes there is a great deal she doesn't know about the complex mores of her new home, and about her own husband.

A British couple invites the newlyweds to join on a climbing expedition to Mount Kenya, and they eagerly agree. But during their harrowing ascent, a horrific accident occurs. In the aftermath of the tragedy, Margaret struggles to understand what happened on the mountain and how these events have transformed her and her marriage, perhaps forever.

A Change in Altitude illuminates the inner landscape of a couple, the irrevocable impact of tragedy, and the elusive nature of forgiveness. With stunning language and striking emotional intensity, Anita Shreve transports us to the exotic panoramas of Africa and into the core of our most intimate relationships.

A young and successful journalist working in New York, Maureen English appears to have the perfect life and family. But Maureen's husband, a highly respected fellow reporter, has in private a tendency towards alcohol and violent abuse. When the situation at home becomes intolerable, Maureen takes her baby daughter and flees.
In a Maine fishing town she assumes a new identity and spends six weeks battling sub-zero temperatures, the intrusive glare of the townsfolk - and her fears of discovery. Against the force of the wintry sea - the cawing of the gulls, the lobstermen hauling their catch, the press of waves against the rocks - Maureen settles into the rhythms of a new life. Two married men pursue her, and one captures her heart. But this calming respite ends suddenly, leaving in its wake a murder, a rape charge, a suicide and a helpless child. Nearly nineteen years later, a cache of documents regarding Maureen English - abused, accused and imprisoned - are given to her daughter by the journalist who made her name reporting the case. The truth should lie within them, but the papers raise far more questions than they answer...

A brilliant and beautiful contemporary novel about love and memory from the author of the bestselling novels All He Ever Wanted and The Pilots Wife.

A Novel Tag - Author of Resistance and Strange Fits of Passion

In October 1947, after a summer-long drought, fires break out all along the Maine coast from Bar Harbor to Kittery and are soon racing out of control from town to village. Five months pregnant, Grace Holland is left alone to protect her two toddlers when her husband, Gene, joins the volunteer firefighters. Along with her best friend, Rosie, and Rosie's two young children, Grace watches helplessly as their houses burn to the ground, the flames finally forcing them all into the ocean as a last resort. They spend the night frantically protecting their children and in the morning find their lives forever changed: homeless, penniless, awaiting news of their husbands' fate, and left to face an uncertain future in a town that no longer exists. In the midst of this devastating loss, Grace discovers glorious new freedoms--joys and triumphs she could never have expected her narrow life with Gene could contain--and her spirit soars. Then the unthinkable happens and Grace's bravery is tested as never before.

With all the narrative power and emotional immediacy that have made her novels acclaimed international bestsellers, Anita Shreve unfolds a richly engaging tale of marriage, money, and troubled times-the story of a pair of young newlyweds who, setting out to build a life together in a derelict beach house on the Atlantic coast, soon discover how threatening the world outside their front door can be.

The book that moved millions: This stunning evocation of turn-of-the-century Boston and a modern classic of literary romantic fiction, is being reissued with a new cover alongside other classic titles from the Abacus list in our 40th Anniversary year 'In the time it takes for her to walk from the bathhouse at the seawall of Fortune's Rock, where she has left her boots and discreetly pulled off her stockings, to the waterline along which the sea continually licks the pink and silver sand, she learns about desire.' It is the summer of 1899, and Olympia Biddeford and her parents have retired from the heat of Boston to the coastal resort…

When Linda Fallon and Thomas Janes meet at a writers' festival in Toronto, it is the first time they have seen each other for twenty-six years. Theirs is a story bound by the irresistible pull of true passion - a love which begins in Massachusetts in the early 1960s, is rekindled in Kenya in the mid 1970s and which is about to play out its astonishing final episode...
Written with reverse chronology, Anita Shreve's new novel is a haunting story of mesmerising beauty, with a strong narrative pull that inescapably draws the reader in, and leaves its most stunning revelation until the very last pages. Brilliantly ambitious and powerfully written, "The Last Time They Met" is a tale not so much of life, but of a life not lived.

A compelling tale of edgy, small-town emotions, lingering obsession, and romantic salvation. Andrew, after many years, returns to his hometown to attend his mother's funeral. Planning to remain only a few days, he is drawn into the

A turbulent, tragic story of domestic abuse from the bestselling author of The Pilot's Wife. Everyone believes that Maureen and Harrold English, two successful New York City journalists, have a happy, stable marriage. It's the early '70s

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. For Nicholas, it is also a chance meeting that lights up a lifelong passion, and sets in motion a pursuit of Etna that is to end in their marriage.
But their life is not everything they could have imagined. Many years later, Nicholas recounts their courtship and their time together. And as the threads of the story begin to unravel, what is revealed is a patchwork of promises, truths, secrets and lies, and a man, madly in love, for whom his wife is all he ever wanted . . .

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