The Weight of Water/Resistance
Author(s): Anita Shreve
The Weight of Water - On Smuttynose Island, off the coast of New Hampshire, more than a century ago, two Norwegian immigrant women were brutally murdered. A third woman survived by hiding in a cave. In 1995, Jean, a photographer, is sent on an assignment to shoot a photo essay about the legendary crime where unearths letters written by Maren, the sole survivor of the murder spree. Soon her interest becomes an obsession with the ancient story - leading to unrecoverable consequences.
Resistance - As the wife of a Resistance member in German-occupied Belgium, Claire Daussois has grown used to hiding strange men in her attic. But when the B-17 bomber that crash-lands outside Claire's village it contains the man who will be both the last and the most significant of the attic's residents: US Air Force pilot Ted Brice. He is found by ten-year-old Jean Benoit who realises that Claire is the pilot's only hope of survival.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Little, Brown Book Group
- : Abacus
- : 0.258
- : 31 March 2011
- : 178mm X 108mm
- : 01 April 2011
- : books
Special Fields
- : Anita Shreve
- : Paperback
- : 496