The Content Reader

For quite some time I have had two books by Anita Shreve on my shelves. Many years ago I read The Pilot's Wife  and got fascinated by Shreve's way of writing and her personal stories. It seemed like a good idea to read some more and I have now finished both of them. Eden Close and Sea Glass are stories about everyday people who are facing a drama or events in life that change their lives. In Eden Close  Andrew returns home after many years to attend his mothers funeral. While preparing their old house for sale, his memories of the fatal events that struck his neighbour Eden comes back to him. Going down memory lane and his old feelings for her, he finally digests what happened that night many years ago. Like in The Pilot's Wife , everything is not what it seems to be, and the event that so effected many people finally gets its solution. In Sea Glass  we meet at set of people in north east England just before the Wall Street crash in 1929. Honora and Sexton, a young co...