Body Surfing Shreve, Anita

A 29-year-old tutor arrives at a New Hampshire beach house for the summer, hired to teach the teenage daughter of a wealthy family. What begins as a simple job spirals into something far more dangerous when she's drawn into the orbit of the family's charismatic older brother — a man engaged to someone else. Anita Shreve maps the collision between desire and consequence with surgical precision, moving between a single weekend and the decades that follow. 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.