Rescued at the death
THE name Anita Shreve has become almost, a brand. Publishers use it to describe a genre. If you see ‘like Anita Shreve’ on a book cover, it means that the author writes well, and on the more literary end of the women’s fiction spectrum. The book is also likely to analyse the minutiae of relationships.
Yet when you pick up a book by Anita Shreve, you’re never sure what to expect. She’s written novels set in the past; she’s veered into Jodi Picoult territory with issue-driven stories. Some of her books are compulsive page turners; other are slow and meditative. So just because you adored the last book she wrote, is no guarantee that you will like the next.
