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Fortunes Rocks
Set 100 years ago in Boston Fortunes Rocks is a classic of literary and romantic storytelling. Fourteen-year-old Olympic Biddeford is spending the summer with her parents at their seasonal house at Fortunes Rocks. Her father handles her education himself and is in fact a publisher of mildly liberal literature. One author he admires who also practises as a physician comes to visit the house. 40 years old married with four children he still embarks on an affair with the adolescent girl. They have a swift passionate summer torn apart when they are discovered together during Olympics fifteenth birthday party. She is taken back to Boston her parents are mortified and remove themselves from society. When Olympic is delivered of a baby boy nine months later he is taken from her and she finds
herself in exile at a ladies college and then as a governess. She decides she must get her child back which means returning to Fortunes Rocks...This sensuality of a girls rite of passage the descriptions of landscape weather music and light are vintage Shreve and her seventh novel will thrill her many admirers.
herself in exile at a ladies college and then as a governess. She decides she must get her child back which means returning to Fortunes Rocks...This sensuality of a girls rite of passage the descriptions of landscape weather music and light are vintage Shreve and her seventh novel will thrill her many admirers.
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