Anita Shreve is an author who has featured here on The Steady Read, albeit quite a while back. She was an author who I took a spontaneous plunge on when seeing many of her works in a second-hand bookshop for as little as fifty pence.
Although I have only read one of her novels, and even that was a few years ago, Sea Glass is a book that has resided on my bookshelf for this whole time. It is a romance, and the second follow-on book after Fortune’s Rock, both of which actually feed back into the story of her 1998 novel A Pilot’s Wife. Sadly, I only own Sea Glass for now.
As seems to be in line with Shreve, it is a romance novel centred around a large beach house located along the New Hampshire coast. I suppose the most interesting aspect is that the plot takes place in 1929, aligning it with the forthcoming Great Depression that plagued the western world across the 1930s.
In essence, it seems to be a romance story about a couple whose livelihood and relationship are strained by the economic and societal troubles around them. Such a shame that I have to source the other two books before I can crack open Sea Glass, but it does sound captivating, and I know Shreve can make her plots rather guttural and intense.
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