Fortune’s Rocks  


First edition cover

Author
Anita Shreve

Country
United States

Language
English

Genre(s)
Romance novel

Publisher
Little, Brown and Company

Publication date
December 2, 1999

Media type
Print (Hardcover and Paperback)

Pages
453 pp

ISBN
ISBN 0316781010

Followed by
Sea Glass

Fortune’s Rocks is a 1999 romance novel by bestselling author Anita Shreve. It is chronologically the first novel in Shreve’s trilogy 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 and The Pilot’s Wife.

Plot introduction

In the summer of 1899, Olympia Biddeford, a privileged, intelligent and confident fifteen 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.

External links

  • Telling the timeless tale: An Interview with Anita Shreve about Fortune’s Rocks
  • Salon Book Review


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