Anita Shreve’s novel Body Surfing [978 0 369 11901 6] will please her fans, but really just comes over as pleasant easy reading to me. Say, the posh person’s Mills and Boon. Its worth reading to the end, and has a nice feel and context (East coast USA on the beach) but the people, even though roundly written ,don’t capture my empathy or make me identify with them – even the heroine is rather limp. However, not bad weekend reading I suppose.
Anita Shreve’s novel Body Surfing [978 0 369 11901 6] will please her fans, but really just comes over as pleasant easy reading to me. Say, the posh person’s Mills and Boon. Its worth reading to the end, and has a nice feel and context (East coast USA on the beach) but the people, even though roundly written ,don’t capture my empathy or make me identify with them – even the heroine is rather limp. However, not bad weekend reading I suppose.
Sydney, aged 29 and married twice, is on a widow gap year, tutoring an 18 year old of a rich couple as they spend the summer at their oceanfront New Hampshire cottage. The Edward’s two sons appear for a visit and there begins a strange competition for her affections through the summer. Sydney is vulnerable and is easily caught, but needs all her strength to survive the experience.
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