| Fortune's Rocks | |
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First edition cover |
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| Author(s) | Anita Shreve |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Romance novel |
| Publisher | Little, Brown and Company |
| Publication date | December 2, 1999 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
| Pages | 453 pp |
| ISBN | 0316781010 |
| OCLC Number | 41991464 |
| Dewey Decimal | 813/.54 21 |
| LC Classification | PS3569.H7385 F67 2000 |
| Followed by | Sea 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.
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.