The Back of the Book

'I believe an entire story, an entire marriage, was written in that embrace, though I could not have foreseen it then. And based on that experience, I would advise young lovers to be asattentive to the first embrace with the beloved as one would be to a soothsayer ...'

It is a fire in a New Hampshire hotel that brings Nicholas Van Tassel and Etna Bliss together, a chance meeting that lights up a lifelong passion. But their life is not everything they could have imagined. Many years later, Nigholas 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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Availables Box 1

Reserved for BCUKer

On way to rubybluelady

This arrived in the post yesterday morning. I'm working my way through all of Shreve's books, so I'm pleased to have this one. Thanks :0)

I read this book sometime ago and must've forgotten to journal it. The book was good enough for me to remember it two months later. I love Anita Shreve and this gave me no reason to change that. She writes such real situations and people, it is easy to feel she's writing about something that really happened or is happening.

Thanks for sharing.

RELEASE NOTES:

I am taking this to the Brighton Bookcrossing Unconvention.

Given by Ginger Geoff

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

To be released at the Bookcrossing Swindon bar-b-q 2008

Picked up at the BBQ back on the August Bank Holiday. Thesis writing and a lovely holiday in France delayed my journalling it - sorry!!