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The car crash should have killed her. But rookie paramedic Peter Webster takes the emergency call, and helps the young woman, Sheila Arsenault, to survive. After the accident, she haunts his thoughts, despite his misgivings about getting involved with a patient. Soon he is embroiled in an intense love affair and in Sheila's troubled life.
Eighteen years later, Sheila is long gone and Peter is raising their daughter, Rowan, alone. But Rowan is veering dangerously off course and for the first time in their quiet life together Peter fears for her future. He seeks out the only person who may be able to help Rowan, although Sheila's return is sure to unleash all the questions Peter has been carefully keeping at bay: Why would a mother leave her family? How did the marriage of two people in love unravel?
About the author
Anita Shreve verbrachte einige Jahre als Journalistin in Afrika und bereiste weite Teile Kenias, bevor sie in die USA zurückkehrte und Schriftstellerin wurde. Anita Shreve lebt mit ihrem Mann in Boston/Massachusetts.
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"Rescue is so well constructed, understated and emotionally true that you won t be able to put it down. I was dead to the world until I d finished it- this remarkably moving and strong novel gets ten out of ten from me" (A. N. Wilson)"Anita Shreve again proves herself a talented author with real insight into hard emotional relationships in this moving tale" (Daily Express)
