Anita Shreve

Anita Shreve is the author of fifteen best-selling novels which have spent more than 100 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller Lists. The Weight of Water was short listed for the Orange Prize and The Pilot’s Wife was selected by Oprah Winfrey’s ‘Book club’ series.  Shreve started her writing career as a journalist and her award-winning short stories and non-fiction have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Cosmopolitan and Esquire.  Shreve is married to a man she met when she was 13.  She has two children and three stepchildren and lives in Massachusetts.

Anita Shreve was our Author of the Month in February 2012.

Author photo © Deborah Feingold

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Rescue Anita Shreve February 2012 Book of the Month. A tale of love, banishment and renewal, Rescue is a perfectly paced novel, written with Shreve's skilful lightness of touch and perceptive characterisation. Alternating between the life-and-death... Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012 Lovereading Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)

A Change in Altitude: Unabridged Audiobook Anita Shreve This is an unabridged audiobook title. Anita Shreve always manages to throw a curve ball into events and change her characters lives irrevocably. A newly married couple find out how little they know about each other while on a... Format: Audiobook On Cd - Released: 01/11/2010 Lovereading Price: £18.74 - Saving £6.25 (25%)

A Change in Altitude Anita Shreve Anita Shreve always manages to throw a curve ball into events and change her characters lives irrevocably. A newly married couple find out how little they know about each other while on a Kenyan expedition. Get ready for powerful, emotional... Format: Paperback - Released: 29/04/2010 Lovereading Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)

A Change in Altitude Anita Shreve Anita Shreve always manages to throw a curve ball into events and change her characters lives irrevocably. A newly married couple find out how little they know about each other while on a Kenyan expedition. Get ready for powerful, emotional... Format: Hardback - Released: 05/11/2009 Lovereading Price: £12.74 - Saving £4.25 (25%)

Testimony Anita Shreve Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 30 October 2008. A sex scandal rocks the sheltered world of a private Vermont school, affecting students, parents and teachers alike. The story moves quickly as Shreve switches the narrative from one... Format: Paperback - Released: 04/06/2009 Lovereading Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)

Testimony Anita Shreve October 2008 Book of the Month. Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 30 October 2008. A sex scandal rocks the sheltered world of a private Vermont school, affecting students, parents and... Format: Hardback - Released: 02/10/2008 Lovereading Price: £11.24 - Saving £3.75 (25%)

Body Surfing Anita Shreve Another beautifully written book from this author, set against a New Hampshire seaside backdrop which she seems to love and indeed you want to be curled up on a veranda looking out to sea when reading this tale of a... Format: Paperback - Released: 06/03/2008 Lovereading Price: £6.74 - Saving £2.25 (25%)

A Wedding in December Anita Shreve Not quite as in depth as some of her other novels, probably just because there are a lot of characters to deal with. Seven old college friend reunite for a wedding and old wounds, secrets and unresolved tensions come to... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2006 Lovereading Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)

Light on Snow Anita Shreve I read this author’s first novel, Eden Close, and just knew that one day she would become a star. It’s taken longer than I’d expected and an Oprah Winfrey Book Club choice in America to really draw her out but... Format: Paperback - Released: 06/06/2005 Lovereading Price: £6.74 - Saving £2.25 (25%)

Light on Snow Anita Shreve I read this author’s first novel, Eden Close, and just knew that one day she would become a star. It’s taken longer than I’d expected and an Oprah Winfrey Book Club choice in America to really draw her out... Format: Audio Cd (performance / Spoken Word) - Released: 07/10/2004 Lovereading Price: £11.99 - Saving £4.00 (25%)

All He Ever Wanted Anita Shreve A dark novel of unrequited love. The central character is not the most likeable but you do feel sympathy for him, married to a woman he desperately loves but who has told him from the start she does not love... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/01/2004 Lovereading Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)

Sea Glass Anita Shreve Shreve brings us some great characters along with a good historical novel based around the time of The Depression after the stock market collapse of 1929. If you don’t know much about this period she provides interesting insight into the... Format: Paperback - Released: 21/11/2002 Lovereading Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)

The Last Time They Met Anita Shreve A beautifully written novel of lost love. The end of this book is a complete surprise and will make you want to read the novel all over again with this new perspective.... Format: Paperback - Released: 03/12/2001 Lovereading Price: £6.74 - Saving £2.25 (25%)

Fortune's Rocks Anita Shreve This is considered one of her best novels and does deserve such praise. A wonderfully descriptive book, it is the attention to detail that makes this such an absorbing read, you can picture every line on each character’s face, each... Format: Paperback - Released: 04/01/2001 Lovereading Price: £6.74 - Saving £2.25 (25%)

Resistance Anita Shreve Anita Shreve's compelling fourth novel - set in German-occupied Belgium in 1943-44. Format: Paperback - Released: 02/05/1996 Lovereading Price: £6.74 - Saving £2.25 (25%)

Eden Close Anita Shreve A fiction debut from the author of The Weight of Water and The Pilot's Wife. Format: Paperback - Released: 01/12/1994 Lovereading Price: £6.74 - Saving £2.25 (25%)

Rescue Anita Shreve The car crash should have killed her. But rookie paramedic Peter Webster takes the emergency call, and helps the young woman, Sheila Arsenault, to survive. After the accident, she haunts his thoughts, despite his misgivings about getting involved with a... Format: Hardback - Released: 02/02/2012 Lovereading Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)