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At the age of 29, Sydney has already been once divorced and once widowed. Trying to regain her footing, she has answered an ad to tutor the teenage daughter of a well-to-do couple as they spend a sultry summer in their oceanfront New Hampshire cottage. But when the Edwards's two grown sons, Ben and Jeff, arrive at the beach house, Sydney finds herself caught up in a destructive web of old tensions and bitter divisions. As the brothers vie for her affections, the fragile existence Sydney has rebuilt is threatened. With the subtle wit, lyrical language, and brilliant insight into the human heart that has led her to be called an author at one with her metier (Miami Herald), Shreve weaves a novel about marriage, family, and the supreme courage it takes to love.
Synopsis:
A spellbinding novel about a young widow torn between two brothers she meets one New England summer, "Body Surfing" is a harrowing and heart-wrenching story about the impossible decisions one woman must make ("Cosmopolitan").
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294 pages
Little Brown and Company -
English9780316036283
Reviews:
"Synopsis"
by Ingram,
At the age of 29, Sydney has already been once divorced and once widowed. Trying to regain her footing, she has answered an ad to tutor the teenage daughter of a well-to-do couple as they spend a sultry summer in their oceanfront New Hampshire cottage. But when the Edwards's two grown sons, Ben and Jeff, arrive at the beach house, Sydney finds herself caught up in a destructive web of old tensions and bitter divisions. As the brothers vie for her affections, the fragile existence Sydney has rebuilt is threatened. With the subtle wit, lyrical language, and brilliant insight into the human heart that has led her to be called an author at one with her metier (Miami Herald), Shreve weaves a novel about marriage, family, and the supreme courage it takes to love.
"Synopsis"
by Ingram,
A spellbinding novel about a young widow torn between two brothers she meets one New England summer, "Body Surfing" is a harrowing and heart-wrenching story about the impossible decisions one woman must make ("Cosmopolitan").
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