Sunday Salon | Body Surfing by Anita Shreve

Sunday afternoons are made for reading – especially on a day like today when the weather is dark and dreary and all you want to do is curl up on the sofa with a good book. I’ve spent quite a lot of Sunday afternoons this way this winter – it’s been so dark and depressing.Today however I am snatching time with a book before heading out to Ikea.

This week’s book is Body Surfing by Anita Shreve – I’ve been a fan of hers ever since I got a copy of Eden Close free in a magazine many years ago. I’ve read all of her books since and eagerly awaited this one to be released in paperback (hardbacks are just too heavy and cumbersome).

The novel revolves around a 29-year old girl called Sydney – who is twice married, once divorced and once widowed – and finds herself spending the summer tutoring a slow girl by the name of Julie at her family’s summer house.

The novel is – as always – beautifully written – in a series of short paragraphs that are often just descriptions of a place, or snippets of a conversation – like jigsaw pieces that the reader must slot together to create the bigger picture.

It makes me wish I could spend my summers ensconced in a Summer House – steps away from the ocean and a world away from every day life that is lived the rest of the year round…

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