Body Surfing

As usual, Shreve s powerful storytelling pulls you in like a rip tide - MARIE CLAIRE

Relationships in all their guises are Shreve s thing; she fascinated by what binds us together and flings us apart … Like all Shreve s novels, BODY SURFING examines not only the creation but the breakdown of numerous relationships in their different forms … This is undoubtedly one of Shreve s finest works yet GLAMOUR More heart-wrenching from the queen of the emotional rollercoaster - DAILY MIRROR

Shreve writes about emotional dramas and she writes about them well … [she has] a talent for intense and catastrophic moments … If you have to brand something as the perfect beach or comfort read, then this would be it - EVENING STANDARD

Because it s Anita Shreve you know there will be emotional upheavals, shifts of loyalty and painful revelations about the past before the book is over, and so it proves - the Shreve hallmarks are all over this warm, satisfying novel - THE TIMES

Shreve stipples her prose with detail, portraying one woman s sense of dislocation with perspicacity and great compassion - DAILY MAIL

Nobody does emotional intensity quite like Anita Shreve, as this beautifully written story of destructive relationships proves - BELLA

Intricately crafted … Shreve s depiction of how the tensions that simmer below the surface of this family eventually burst to the surface is gut-wrenching, and - as you would be entitled to expect from this master of the human drama - utterly gripping - SUNDAY BUSINESS POST

Shreve evokes the feel and sensation of an exclusive summer beach house and the family that owns it … [This book] won t let you go until you ve reached the last page - SUNDAY TRIBUNE

Anita Shreve is the author of twelve critically acclaimed and bestselling novels, all published in Abacus paperback.

Author Location: Massachusetts, USA

12 novels including Eden Close, The Weight of Water, The Pilot’s Wife, All He Ever Wanted, Fortune’s Rocks, Sea Glass, Light on Snow, Body Surfing