Anita Shreve

A man receives a bill for a chandelier that he never ordered and has never seen. This mysterious document turns out to be the hinge of his world and his attempts to make sense of it lead him to facts about himself, his marriage and his orderly life that had previously been hidden from him.

Once divorced and once widowed, Sydney is trying to put her life together again. As tutor to the daughter of a wealthy couple she finds herself caught in a web of destruction.

When Andrew returns to his hometown for his mother's funeral he doesn't intend to stay, but he is haunted by memories of a night seventeen years earlier when his friend, Eden Close, is blinded and her father killed. He wants to save Eden from the cruel negect she suffers, but first he must discover the truth about that night.

After a road accident wipes out the rest of their family, twelve year old Nicky and her father move to a remote village in New Hampshire. Their grief forces them apart, but walking in the woods one day they find a new born baby in a bloody sleeping bag and the following events briefly bring them together again.

When American woman, Stella Bain, is found suffering from shell shock in a London garden, surgeon August Bridge and his wife agree to take her in. Stella had been working as a nurse's aide near the front, but she can't remember anything prior to four months earlier when she was found wounded on a French battlefield, and August soon develops a clinical interest in his houseguest.

When Peter Webster pulls Sheila Arsenault from her wrecked car he falls for her instantly. Soon they are embroiled in an intense affair, marry and have a daughter. Then things start to unravel.

In occupied Belgium, Claire Dussois has grown used to hiding strange men in her attic. When Ted Brice crash lands near the village he is taken to Claire. The time they spend together has a profound effect on both their lives.

In 1929 Sexton Beecher and Honora Willard begin their married life in a cottage they love in Fortune's Rocks. Their love is about to be severely tested as the effects of the Wall Street Crash changes lives and dreams all over America.

In October 1947, after a summer long drought, fires break out all along the Maine coast. Five months pregnant, Grace Holland is left alone to protect her two toddlers when her husband, Gene, joins the volunteer firefighters. And then the unthinkable happens - and Grace's bravery is tested as never before.

At a New England boarding school, a sex scandal is about to break. Even more shocking than the acts themselves is the fact that they were caught on videotape. A Pandora's Box of revelations, the tape details the ways in which lives can be derailed or destroyed in one foolish moment. X rated, explicit sexual content.

In 1873, three Norwegian women were brutally attacked on a small bleak island off the coast of New Hampshire. More than a century later, Jean, a photojournalist, travels to the island on a research assignment to investigate the murder. As she immerses herself in a tale of love and loss, the ancient story begins to affect her behaviour, driving her to wild, impulsive action - with irreversible consequences.

When Charles Callahan chances on a newspaper photograph of Sian Richards, a woman he loved when they were both only thirteen, he cannot resist the hand of fate. He writes to Sian, and their passion is rekindled, beginning a powerful relationship that turns into dark obsession.