Anita Shreve Livres

Décembre 1943. En pleine occupation nazie, Claire et Henri Daussois, couple de résistants belges, recueillent sous leur toit Ted, soldat américain ayant miraculeusement survécu à l'explosion de son avion. Bientôt, Henri est lui-même obligé de vivre dans la clandestinité : des officiers allemands traquent son réseau sans répit. Restés seuls, Ted et Claire apprennent à se connaître et se rapprochent peu à peu. Mais la barbarie ambiante va rapidement les rappeler à la réalité : entre héroïsme et lâcheté, loyauté et dissimulation, l'hiver 1943 va changer leur vie à jamais.

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.

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.

A compelling tale of edgy, small-town emotions, lingering obsession, and romantic salvation from acclaimed novelist Anita Shreve.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 tragic legacy of his childhood friend and beautiful girl next door, Eden Close. An adopted child, Eden had learned to avoid the mother who did not want her and to please the father who did. She also aimed to please Andrew and his friends, first by being one of the boys and later by seducing them. Then one hot night, Andrew was awakened by gunshots and piercing screams from the next Mr. Close had been killed and Eden blinded.Now, seventeen years later, Andrew begins to uncover the grisly story––to unravel the layers of thwarted love between the husband, wife, and tormented girl. And as the truth about Eden's past comes to light, so too does Andrew's strange and binding attachment to her reveal itself.

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 until dawn. In 1995, Jean, a photographer, is sent on an assignment to shoot a photo essay about the legendary crime. Taking her extended family with her, Jean stays in a sailboat anchored off the coast, and finds herself gradually becoming more and more engrossed in the bay's mysterious and gruesome past. Wandering into a library one day, she unearths letters written by Maren, the sole survivor of the murder spree. Jean's fear of losing all that she cares about is reflected in Maren's poignant tale of love and loss, and her obsession with the ancient story drives her to wild impulsive action -- with unrecoverable consequences.

Reissue - with a stunning new cover - of Anita Shreve's outstanding second novel - 'a superbly crafted, intelligent exploration of the complications of an abusive relationship' BOOKLIST

What makes a family? That's what twelve-year-old Nicky Dillon wonders after she and her widowed father discover a wailing abandoned baby in the snow-filled woods near their New Hampshire home. Through the days that follow, the Dillons and an unexpected visitor who soon turns up at their door-a young woman evidently haunted by her own terrible choices-face a thicket of decisions, each seeming to carry equal possibilities of heartbreak and redemption. Writing with all the emotional resonance that has drawn millions of readers around the world to her fiction, Anita Shreve unfolds in Light on Snow a tender and surprising novel about love and its consequences.

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.