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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.
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.


The novel is loosely based on the seaside neighborhood of Fortunes Rocks, located in [[Biddeford, Maine]].
The novel is loosely based on the seaside neighborhood of [[Fortunes Rocks, Maine|Fortunes Rocks]], located in [[Biddeford, Maine]].


==External links==
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Revision as of 15:29, 13 December 2011

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
ISBN0316781010
OCLC41991464
813/.54 21
LC ClassPS3569.H7385 F67 2000
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 tetralogy 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, The Pilot's Wife and Body Surfing.

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.

The novel is loosely based on the seaside neighborhood of Fortunes Rocks, located in Biddeford, Maine.