Anita Shreve Books in Order

In 1947 Maine, young mother Grace Holland survives a devastating coastal wildfire by sheltering overnight in the ocean with her children. Left homeless and unsure whether her volatile husband is alive, she builds a tentative new life in an empty seaside house until past obligations come roaring back.

A woman wearing a World War I nursing uniform wakes in a British field hospital with no memory and takes the name Stella Bain. Under the care of a London surgeon and his wife, she slowly uncovers her true identity—Etna Bliss—and must return to America to face a painful family history.

In rural Vermont, young EMT Peter Webster saves Sheila, a charming but alcoholic stranger, from a car wreck and soon marries her. Years later he’s raising their daughter alone—until the teenager’s own risky behavior forces Webster to seek out the woman who left and reckon with their tangled past.

Newly married Americans Margaret and Patrick move to 1970s Nairobi for his medical research and, on a whim, join friends on a climb up Mount Kenya. A fatal accident on the glacier reverberates through their marriage, pushing Margaret toward risky choices, new work, and a different sense of herself.

At an elite New England prep school, a grainy videotape of a drunken dorm‑room encounter between three basketball players and a fourteen‑year‑old girl explodes into scandal. Told through many voices, the novel follows students, parents, and teachers as one reckless night shatters reputations and futures.

At twenty‑nine, twice‑married Sydney Sklar takes a summer job tutoring Julie Edwards at her family’s New Hampshire beach house. Drawn into the family’s tensions and into a charged triangle with Julie’s two older brothers, Sydney finds her hard‑won stability tested yet again by love and betrayal.

Snowed in at an inn in the Berkshire Mountains, a group of former prep‑school classmates reunite for the hurried wedding of two first loves, Bridget and Bill. As they revisit a long‑ago tragedy and present‑day secrets, each quietly measures the life they chose against the one they imagined.

Twelve‑year‑old Nicky Dillon and her widowed father discover an abandoned newborn in the snowy woods near their isolated New Hampshire home. When the baby’s young mother later appears at their door, the three are forced to confront grief, responsibility, and how far compassion should reach.

Middle‑aged professor Nicholas Van Tassel looks back on his marriage to the elusive Etna Bliss and slowly reveals how his desire curdled into control. Set in early‑twentieth‑century New England, his confession unspools a chilling portrait of obsession, jealousy, and the damage a self‑justifying narrator can do.

Newlyweds Honora and Sexton Beecher think they’ve found their dream home in a weathered beach house, but the 1929 crash and looming mill layoffs shatter their plans. Drawn into a bitter labor struggle, they form unlikely alliances that test their marriage, loyalties, and ideas about security.

At a literary festival in Toronto, poets Linda Fallon and Thomas Janes reunite decades after a brief, intense love affair. The novel moves backward through time—from middle age to young adulthood to their first teenage summer—tracing how one relationship shapes two lives in ways neither fully understands.

In the summer of 1899, fifteen‑year‑old Olympia Biddeford leaves Boston for a fashionable New Hampshire seaside colony and falls into a scandalous affair with a married, much older doctor. When their passion leads to pregnancy and ruin, Olympia must decide what she is willing to sacrifice for her child.

After her husband’s plane explodes off the coast of Ireland, Kathryn Lyons must navigate grief, intrusive investigators, and a ravenous press. The more she learns about the crash, the more she realizes the man she married was hiding another life that upends everything she thought she knew.

Photographer Jean Janes sails to the Isles of Shoals to shoot a story about the 1873 Smuttynose Island murders, bringing along her poet husband, their young daughter, and his brother’s girlfriend. As Jean pores over a survivor’s old account, jealousies on the boat begin to echo the historic crime.

In occupied Belgium during World War II, Claire Daussois and her husband shelter a wounded American bomber pilot in their farmhouse attic. As Claire and Ted grow dangerously close, the brutal realities of resistance work, betrayal, and reprisals make their brief love both impossible and unforgettable.

Middle‑aged insurance broker Charles Callahan spots a newspaper photo of his first love, Siân Richards, and impulsively reaches out. Their secret correspondence rekindles a teenage passion neither ever forgot, drawing them into an affair that threatens their families and spirals toward unexpected tragedy.

Fleeing an abusive marriage, Maureen English escapes New York with her infant daughter and starts over in a small coastal Maine town under a new name. When violence follows her, a tragic crime and a reporter’s investigation force everyone to question whose story can be trusted.

This nonfiction book revisits a 1970s consciousness‑raising group, following seven women from their early meetings through midlife, and weaves in interviews with others to explore how feminism changed their choices, friendships, work, and family life—and what community they still need now.

When Andrew returns to his rural hometown to settle his late mother’s affairs, he is drawn back to Eden Close, the beautiful neighbor who was blinded and traumatized in a violent crime years before. As he uncovers buried secrets, their shared past tilts toward a possible new future.

Building on their earlier work, this book lays out Dr. Balter and Anita Shreve’s approach to discipline from infancy through the preteen years, emphasizing realistic expectations, consistent limits, and ways to avoid power struggles so parents and children don’t become locked in constant combat.

A reporting‑driven look at how paid work is reshaping women’s experiences of motherhood, this book blends interviews, research, and the author’s own story to argue that children of working mothers can thrive while their families redefine roles at home and on the job.

This accessible parenting guide, co‑written with psychologist Lawrence Balter, explains common problems of infancy and early childhood—from sleep and feeding issues to tantrums and toilet training—and offers calm, practical advice to help parents respond with confidence rather than panic.

A practical health and fitness guide for working women, covering stress, workplace hazards, exercise, nutrition, addictions, and reproductive health, with straightforward advice on protecting your body and managing pressure while juggling career and everyday life.