Anita Shreve was born in the USA on October 7, 1946.She dies on March 29, 2018. She graduated from Dedham High School in Massachusetts. Shreve went on to Tufts University and became a teacher in Reading MA. It was while she was there that she wrote her first book, 'Past the Island, Drifting'. It was awarded the O Henry Award in 1976. The Pilot's Wife was a selection in Oprah's Book Club in 1999. Bill Paxton and Julie Ormond starred in the film Resistance, a rendition of Anita's novel of the same name.
Book Review:In a Nazi occupied Belgian village, Claire Daussois shelters a wounded American bomber pilot and nurses him back to recovery. A passionate affair ensues but she is shattered to find that it does not stand the test of the pressures of war.
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Book Review:Nicky Dillon is walking with her father through the snow near her home when they find a baby in a basket, its survival extremely unlikely without the chance encounter that had just happened.
Book Review:This is the tale of a gathering of people with mixed emotions and conflicting agendas.
Book Review:Kathryn was at home as she spent most of her time awaiting her husband's return from work. She did not expect, but so often dreaded the knock on the door informing her that there had been an accident. But it came, and with it many unexpected developments, and more was to come.
Book Review:Etna Bliss was rescued from a fire in a restaurant by the man she was to marry. But relations have become strained of late.