Journeying to Smuttynose Island, off the coast of New Hampshire, to shoot a photo essay about a century-old double murder, a photographer becomes absorbed by the crime and increasingly obsessed with jealousy over the idea that her husband is having an affair.
Publishers Weekly In 1873, two women living on the Isles of Shoals, a lonely, windswept group of islands off the coast of New Hampshire, were brutally murdered. A third woman survived, cowering in a sea cave until dawn. More than a century later, Jean, a magazine photographer working on a photoessay about the murders, returns to the Isles with her husband, Thomas, and their five-year-old daughter, Billie, aboard a boat skippered by her brother-in-law, Rich, who has brought along his girlfriend, Adaline. As Jean becomes immersed in the details of the 19th-century murders, Thomas and Adaline find themselves drawn together-with potentially ruinous consequences. Shreve ( Where or When ; Resistance ) perfectly captures the ubiquitous dampness of life on a sailboat, deftly evoking the way in which the weather comes to dictate all actions for those at sea. With the skill of a master shipbuilder, Shreve carefully fits her two stories together, tacking back and forth between the increasingly twisted murder mystery and the escalating tensions unleashed by the threat of a dangerous shipboard romance. Written with assurance and grace, plangent with foreboding and a taut sense of inexorability, The Weight of Water is a powerfully compelling tale of passion, a provocative and disturbing meditation on the nature of love.

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A Novel

Anita Shreve

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Sports Illustrated For Kids

Back Bay Books

United States, United States of America

London, United Kingdom, 1997

Boston, Mass, ©2004], ©1997

Movie Tie-In, PT, 1998

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Bookmarks:
1. (p7) AUTHER NOTE
2. (p11) I HAVE TO LET THIS STORY GO.
3. (p15) IT IS MY JOB TO CALL OUT IF I SEE A SHAPE, A ROCKY LEDGE, AN ISLAND.
4. (p47) 19 SEPTEMBER 1899, LAURVIG
5. (p50) 20 SEPTEMBER 1867, THE LSLES OF SHOALS
6. (p73) WHEN I LOOK AT PHOTOGRAPHS OF BILLIE,
7. (p103) 21 SEPTEMBER 1 899
8. (p123) IN AFRICA
9. (p144) 22 SEPTEMBER 1899
10. (p170) I SIT IN THE FOUNDATION
11. (p186) 23 SEPTEMBER 1899
12. (p200) I THINK ABOUT THE WEIGHT OF WATER,
13. (p226) 25 SEPTEMBER 1899
14. (p251) I SIT IN THE SMALL BOAT IN THE HARBOR AND WATCH THE LIGHT BEGIN
15. (p256) ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
16. (p257) ABOUT THE AUTHOR
17. (p257) . . . AND HER MOST RECENT NOVEL
18. (p258) SHE HEARD A KNOCKING, AND THEN A DOG BARKING. HER DREAM

Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35617555.here) here
A newspaper photographer, Jean, researches the lurid and sensational ax murder of two women in 1873 as an editorial tie-in with a brutal modern double murder. (Can you guess which one?) She discovers a cache of papers that appear to give an account of the murders by an eyewitness. The plot weaves between the narrative of the eyewitness and Jean's private struggle with jealousies and suspicions as her marriage teeters. A rich, textured novel.

A tale of marital intrigue. The protagonist is a woman photographer sent to investigate an old murder on an island. She takes along her husband, the husband's brother and the brother's girlfriend. Problems arise when the husband develops an interest in the other woman. By the author of Resistance

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