Fortunes Rocks

by Anita Shreve

Hester Prynne never had it so good! The year is 1899, and Olympia Biddeford, the headstrong daughter of a Boston Brahmin family, has decided to test the limits of her cloistered world. Spending the summer at her father's New Hampshire estate, the teenage heroine of Fortune's Rocks is entranced with the visiting salon of artists, writers, and lawyers. She's especially captivated, however, by... (read more)

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Top 10 favorite book. I ususally don't like Anita Shreve's works but this one really appealed to me from the very beginning. Beautiful story and lots of tears shed over this one!

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  • Leslie

    leslie said:

    15 year old with 40 year old?

    I can't sit right with a 15 year old and 40 year old...enjoyed the book, but isn't this kind of not normal?

    posted Friday, June 1 2007
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