{"title":"Anita Shreve","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnita Shreve writes with a quiet intensity that lingers long after you've finished the final page. Her novels explore the weight of secrets, love's fragility, and the moments that reshape our lives—think \u003cem\u003eSea Glass\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBody Surfing\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Lives of Stella Bain\u003c\/em\u003e. She's a favourite for readers who crave emotional depth and gorgeous prose without the melodrama.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe've got a solid selection of Anita Shreve books in stock, all lovingly preloved. 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This is a slim, taut novel about the moments that cleave your life in two, and how one summer can haunt you for thirty years. The setting — that specific New England coastline with its old money and cold water — becomes a character itself. For readers who want their fiction sharp, their protagonists morally complicated, and their beach reads genuinely grown-up.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Patina Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45588846149797,"sku":"BIN-H3-4099-06-03-2025","price":6.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0713\/1407\/9909\/files\/61fBq_2BpvplL.jpg?v=1749105617"},{"product_id":"rescue-paperback-shreve-anita","title":"Rescue [Paperback] Shreve, Anita","description":"\u003cp\u003ePeter Webster is a paramedic in Vermont who has spent two decades haunted by a single night: the drunk-driving accident where he pulled Sheila from a wrecked car, fell for her recklessness, and married her within months. The marriage didn't last — her drinking saw to that — but their daughter Rowan did. Now eighteen, Rowan wants answers about the mother she barely remembers, and Peter must decide how much of the truth she can handle. Shreve writes with surgical precision about the long shadow addiction casts over families, the impossible choices loving someone destructive forces you to make, and the moment a child realizes her parents are just people who tried their best. This is domestic drama stripped to its studs: no melodrama, just the quiet devastation of what we inherit and what we choose to carry forward. For readers who like their family sagas lean, taut, and emotionally honest.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Patina Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45588926628005,"sku":"BIN-I2-4476-06-04-2025","price":6.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0713\/1407\/9909\/files\/8130m6uM2LL.jpg?v=1749107211"},{"product_id":"the-lives-of-stella-bain-paperback-shreve-anita","title":"The Lives of Stella Bain [Paperback] Shreve, Anita","description":"\u003cp\u003eA woman wakes in a field hospital in France, 1916. She doesn't know her name. She doesn't know how she got there. But she knows how to drive an ambulance through shellfire, and that's enough to keep her alive. As fragmented memories surface — a London flat, an American childhood, a man's face she can't place — she begins the slow, painful work of piecing together who Stella Bain really is. Shreve weaves a taut psychological mystery against the backdrop of WWI, exploring how trauma fractures identity and how women carved out autonomy in a world designed to deny it. The writing is restrained but powerful, the historical detail meticulous. This is intimate wartime fiction at its best — less about battles than the war within. For readers who loved *Birdsong* or *The Return of the Soldier*, or anyone drawn to stories of resilience, reinvention, and women who refused to stay hidden.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Patina Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45588927348901,"sku":"BIN-I2-4477-06-04-2025","price":6.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0713\/1407\/9909\/files\/81BL4HIVdvL.jpg?v=1749107223"},{"product_id":"testimony-paperback-shreve-anita","title":"Testimony [Paperback] Shreve, Anita","description":"\u003cp\u003eA sex tape surfaces at a prestigious New England prep school, and everything unravels. What began as a drunken encounter between three senior boys and a freshman girl becomes a full-blown scandal that tears through families, friendships, and futures. Shreve structures this as a chorus of testimonies — parents, students, teachers, a detective — each voice revealing another layer of complicity, desire, and damage. No one here is simply guilty or innocent. The boarding school setting feels claustrophobic in the best way, all old money and older secrets. Shreve writes with surgical precision about how quickly shame spreads and how differently we all remember the same night. For readers who like their campus novels dark and their moral questions unanswered.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Patina Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45588928037029,"sku":"BIN-I2-4478-06-04-2025","price":6.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0713\/1407\/9909\/files\/81J2LLev6FL.jpg?v=1749107236"},{"product_id":"eden-close-paperback-shreve-anita","title":"Eden Close [Paperback] Shreve, Anita","description":"\u003cp\u003eAndrew returns to his childhood home after his mother's death and finds Eden Close, the girl next door who was shot and blinded in a violent incident seventeen years ago, still living in the house where it happened. What began as neighbourly concern becomes an excavation of memory — the lazy summers they shared as teenagers, the night everything shattered, and the secrets that small-town silence buries. Shreve writes with restrained intensity about trauma, desire, and the way the past can ambush you when you least expect it. This is quiet suspense: no car chases, just the slow reveal of what really happened that night, and whether two damaged people can salvage something from the wreckage. For readers who like their domestic drama laced with unease and their small-town settings claustrophobic.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Patina Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45589102035109,"sku":"FBX-U5-3592-06-02-2025","price":6.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0713\/1407\/9909\/files\/91Xx1xcnTwL.jpg?v=1749109554"},{"product_id":"sea-glass-paperback-shreve-anita-1","title":"Sea Glass [Paperback] Shreve, Anita","description":"\u003cp\u003eA young bride arrives at a sprawling seaside house in 1929, just as the Great Depression begins to tighten its grip. Her husband, a cloth merchant, grows distant. Their marriage frays like fabric left too long in salt air. Then a beautiful couple moves into a cottage on the grounds — he's a poet, she's magnetic — and suddenly the young wife's carefully arranged life cracks open. Set against the New Hampshire coast, this is Anita Shreve doing what she does best: examining the fault lines in seemingly solid marriages, the way desire rewrites the rules. The prose is restrained, elegant, devastating. If you loved *The Pilot's Wife* or *The Weight of Water*, this belongs on your shelf. Perfect for readers who want their domestic drama laced with longing and consequence.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Patina Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45589119369381,"sku":"FBX-W4-3174-05-29-2025","price":6.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0713\/1407\/9909\/files\/41-3YrQr4LL_0120832b-e539-432a-8fa6-1fdc19a03ec7.jpg?v=1749109817"},{"product_id":"the-lives-of-stella-bain-shreve-anita","title":"The Lives of Stella Bain Shreve, Anita","description":"\u003cp\u003eA woman wakes in a field hospital in France, 1916. She doesn't know her name. She doesn't know where she's from. 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