I really love Anita Shreve's writing. It is poetic and flows so easily for me.
This book explores domestic abuse - back in a time when it wasn't spoken about.
Anita writes this book from the beginning - before the abuse - when the heroine meets the hero. And you can almost understand how someone can fall in love and then stay in a relationship after it becomes abusive.
Eventually the heroine leaves - and goes into hiding with her young daughter. The story unfolds from there