- Anita Shreve
- Body Surfing
At the age of twenty-nine, Sydneyhas already been once divorced and once widowed. In hergrief she left behind her settled life, and has now cometo tutor the teenage daughter of the well-to-do Edwardsfamily as they spend a sultry summer in their beachfrontNew England cottage.But when the Edwards's two grown sons, Milesand Jeff, show up at the beach house, it becomes clearthat the placid, anonymous existence Sydney had hoped foris not to be. Instead, tensions mount between thebrothers as they compete for the love of a woman who hasvowed never to risk her heart again.