by Anita Shreve · Abacus · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780349112770
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«Fortune's Rocks» is the historical romance novel by Anita Shreve, published by Abacus in paperback (592 pages, in English).
Olympia Biddeford, a young woman from Boston's high society, spends her summers at the end of the nineteenth century in Fortune's Rocks, where she meets a married doctor, a friend of her father and much older. A forbidden romance develops between Olympia and the doctor which, when discovered, causes a scandal. Separated from her son, Olympia fights to get him back and rebuild her life.
The work belongs to the «Fortune's Rocks» series, of which it is the first instalment (four books in total).
For readers of historical and romantic fiction who enjoy determined heroines and plots of scandal and redemption.
Anita Hale Shreve was an American writer, chiefly known for her novels. One of her first published stories, Past the Island, Drifting, was awarded an O. Henry Prize in 1976.
