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4.4/5 Barnes & Noble Publication date December 2, 1999 ISBN 0-316-78101-0 Originally published 2 December 1999 | 3.9/5 Goodreads Language English Pages 453 pp OCLC 41991464 Followed by Sea Glass Country United States of America | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Fortune's Rocks is a 1999 romance novel by bestselling author Anita Shreve. It is chronologically the first novel in Shreve's tetralogy to be set in a large beach house on the New Hampshire coast that used to be a convent. It is followed by Sea Glass, The Pilot's Wife and Body Surfing.
Plot introduction
In the summer of 1899, Olympia Biddeford, a privileged, intelligent and confident 15-year-old who is vacationing with her family at Fortune's Rocks, falls in love with a married 41-year-old doctor and journalist, John Haskell. Their passionate affair, and subsequent discovery, produces a son and leads to far-reaching consequences that span several decades.
The novel is loosely based on the seaside neighborhood of Fortunes Rocks, located in Biddeford, Maine.
References
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