Login
Register
Home || Search || About us || Blog || Contact us || Other book sites

Name: Rescue

Full title: Rescue: A Novel
Author: Anita Shreve
Year: 2010
Rank:

Rating:

Original Rating:

Popularity: 2.5
Genres/categories: Fiction, Chick lit, Romance

Purchase/research links:
A rookie paramedic pulls a young woman alive from her totaled car, a first rescue that begins a lifelong tangle of love and wreckage. Sheila Arsenault is a gorgeous enigma--streetwise and tough-talking, with haunted eyes, fierce desires, and a never-look-back determination. Peter Webster, as straight an arrow as they come, falls for her instantly and entirely. Soon Sheila and Peter are embroiled in an intense love affair, married, and parents to a baby daughter. Like the crash that brought them together, it all happened so fast.

Can you ever really save another person? Eighteen years later, Sheila is long gone and Peter is raising their daughter, Rowan, alone. But Rowan is veering dangerously off track, and for the first time in their ordered existence together, Webster fears for her future. His work shows him daily every danger the world contains, how wrong everything can go in a second. All the love a father can give a daughter is suddenly not enough.

Sheila's sudden return may be a godsend--or it may be exactly the wrong moment for a lifetime of questions and anger and longing to surface anew. What tore a young family apart? Is there even worse damage ahead? The questions lifted up in Anita Shreve's utterly enthralling new novel are deep and lasting, and this is a novel that could only have been written by a master of the human heart.
Similar books:

Take Me With You
by Catherine Ryan Hyde

Father of the Rain
by Lily King

Breathing Water
by T. Greenwood

Once Upon a Day
by Lisa Tucker

Family and Other Accidents
by Shari Goldhagen

Family Trust
by Kathy Wang

The Art of Mending
by Elizabeth Berg

Rough Music
by Patrick Gale

Awake
by Elizabeth Graver

Liars and Saints
by Maile Meloy

A Perfectly Good Family
by Lionel Shriver

The Hills at Home
by Nancy Clark

The Family Tree
by Carole Cadwalladr

The Funnies
by J. Robert Lennon

The Beautiful Miscellaneous
by Dominic Smith

A Wedding in December
by Anita Shreve

Friends Forever
by Danielle Steel

Every Breath
by Nicholas Sparks

Rumours
by Freya North

Winners
by Danielle Steel