I have actually read this, but I can't remember a thing about it or whether I enjoyed it!

Amazon blurb: When Charles Callahan chances on a newspaper photograph of Sian Richards, a woman he loved when they were both only thirteen, he is hardly in a position to do anything about it. He has been faithfully married for years and his Rhode Island real estate business has been hit hard by the recession. He is scrambling to stave off bankruptcy and save his house. But Charles cannot resist the hand of fate. He writes to Sian, now a poet living with a family of her own on a farm in upstate New York.

Three decades after they last saw each other, the two lovers meet. Powerfully drawn together once again, Charles and Sian are forced to come to terms with the nature of erotic love and betrayal, moral quandaries in an age of shifting values, and the elusive nature of time. Struggling to reclaim what once they lost, they set in motion a passionate and tumultuous series of events that moves to a shocking conclusion.

Sent to tabyorky as part of the UK anything goes book relay - enjoy!

Received in the post today - thanks pennywhistler.

Started reading this book yesterday.

All through this book I was in two minds about it - I liked it and then I didn't. There was times when I was going to give up and stop reading it, but I did read it to the end.

Reserved for perfect-circle

Posted book to perfect-circle.

arrived today, thanks very much tabyorky

I really do like Shreve's books. This story of first love returning and the change to lives that happens is because of it, has, I felt, a slightly melancholy, nostalgic feel to it.

Picked up at the Unconvention

I read this a while ago, and forgot to review it, so I'm struggling to remember much about it.

I think I enjoyed it - it had many of the usual Shreve elements: love, loss, a slightly melancholy atmosphere, excellent characterisation.

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