Body Surfing

Body Surfing

At the age of twenty-nine, Sydney has already been once divorced and once widowed. Trying to find her footing again, she has answered an advertisement to tutor the teenage daughter of a well-to-do couple as they spend a sultry summer in their oceanfront New Hampshire cottage.<br /> <br /> But when the Edwards&#39; two grown sons, Ben and Jeff, arrive at the beach house, Sydney finds herself caught up in a destructive web of old tensions and bitter divisions. As the brothers vie for her affections, the fragile existence Sydney has rebuilt is threatened.<br /> <br /> With the subtle wit, lyrical language, and brilliant insight into real emotion that has led her to be called &#39;a supremely elegant anatomist of the human heart&#39; (The Times), Shreve weaves a story about risk, family, and the supreme courage that it takes to love.