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The Weight of Water/ResistanceThe Weight of Water/Resistance

The Weight of Water/Resistance

Anita Shreve

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The Weight of Water: On Smuttynose Island, off the coast of New Hampshire, more than a century ago, two Norwegian immigrant women were brutally murdered. A third woman survived by hiding in a cave. In 1995, Jean, a photographer, is sent on an assignment to shoot a photo essay about the legendary crime where unearths letters written by Maren, the sole survivor of the murder spree. Soon her interest becomes an obsession with the ancient story - leading to unrecoverable consequences. Resistance: As the wife of a Resistance member in German-occupied Belgium, Claire Daussois has grown used to hiding strange men in her attic. But when the B-17 bomber that crash-lands outside Claire's village it contains the man who will be both the last and the most significant of the attic's residents: US Air Force pilot Ted Brice. He is found by ten-year-old Jean Benoit who realises that Claire is the pilot's only hope of survival.

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OL Work ID
OL20424786W

Subjects

Women photographersFictionWorld War, 1939-1945Underground movementsAmericansHistoryWar Underground movementsPhotographers, fictionCrime, fictionMaine, fictionWorld war, 1939-1945, fictionBelgium, fictionFiction, historical

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