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==Plot introduction==
==Plot introduction==
In the summer of [[1899]], Olympia Biddeford, a privileged and intelligent fifteen year old who is vacationing with her family at Fortune's Rocks, falls in love with a married 41-year-old doctor, John Haskell. Their passionate affair, and subsequent discovery, leads to far-reaching consequences that span several decades.
In the summer of [[1899]], Olympia Biddeford, a privileged, intelligent and confident fifteen year old who is vacationing with her family at Fortune's Rocks, falls in love with a married 41-year-old doctor and journalist, John Haskell. Their passionate affair, and subsequent discovery, produces a son and leads to far-reaching consequences that span several decades.


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Revision as of 09:04, 23 September 2007

Fortune's Rocks
First edition cover
AuthorAnita Shreve
LanguageEnglish
GenreRomance novel
PublisherLittle, Brown and Company
Publication date
December 2, 1999
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages453 pp
ISBNISBN 0316781010 Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character
Followed bySea Glass 

Fortune's Rocks is a 1999 romance novel by bestselling author Anita Shreve. It is chronologically the first novel in Shreve's trilogy to be set in a large beach house on the New Hampshire coast that used to be a convent. It is followed by Sea Glass and The Pilot's Wife.

Plot introduction

In the summer of 1899, Olympia Biddeford, a privileged, intelligent and confident fifteen year old who is vacationing with her family at Fortune's Rocks, falls in love with a married 41-year-old doctor and journalist, John Haskell. Their passionate affair, and subsequent discovery, produces a son and leads to far-reaching consequences that span several decades.