Stella Bain, Anita Shreve
Stella Bain, Anita Shreve
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Stella Bain

Author: Anita Shreve

Narrator: Hope Davis

Unabridged: 6 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/12/2013


Synopsis

An epic story, set against the backdrop of World War I, from bestselling author Anita Shreve.

When an American woman, Stella Bain, is found suffering from severe shell shock in an exclusive garden in London, surgeon August Bridge and his wife selflessly agree to take her in.

A gesture of goodwill turns into something more as Bridge quickly develops a clinical interest in his houseguest. Stella had been working as a nurse's aide near the front, but she can't remember anything prior to four months earlier when she was found wounded on a French battlefield.

In a narrative that takes us from London to America and back again, Shreve has created an engrossing and wrenching tale about love and the meaning of memory, set against the haunting backdrop of a war that destroyed an entire generation.

About Anita Shreve

Anita Shreve was a high school teacher and a freelance magazine journalist before writing fiction full time. She was the author of over fifteen novels as well as the international bestseller The Pilot’s Wife, and The Weight of the Water, a finalist for the Orange Prize. Shreve taught writing at Amherst College and lived in Massachusetts.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Samantha on July 03, 2024

I was excited to get this book, stories about WWI being more difficult to come by than those about WWII. However, this novel is not really about the war. Stella, who is not sure that Stella really is her name, wakes up in a French army hospital and is not quite sure how she got there. I assumed that......more

Goodreads review by Susan on November 21, 2013

I have read and enjoyed all of Anita Shreve's book. I devour them quickly and wait patiently for the next one. Each is different. They are always engaging and well-written. Stella Bain is no exception. The background story of serving as a nurse in the field hospitals of the First World War provides......more

Goodreads review by Amy on January 29, 2014

Here's the thing: unlike many readers, I loved 'The Last Time They Met' and keep reading Anita Shreve's books because of it. So unlike many readers, I keep getting disappointed. Her books are never bad, but they aren't... great. This one is no exception. It's the tale of a WWI nurse, although we mee......more

Goodreads review by Heather K on August 05, 2017

I am a huge Anita Shreve fan and have read everything she's previously written; therefore I was waiting for this novel with some anticipation. I was a little worried because of its initial setting in WWI, as I don't like war novels, but I need not have worried; this section of the book is short and......more

Goodreads review by Chris on June 04, 2024

Stella Bain is an American nurse’s aide and ambulance driver in France during WW1 who has lost her memory. Finds her way to England and taken in by Dr. August Bridge and diagnosed with shell shock. This book has great information about shell shock which was a new diagnosis for the time affecting sol......more


Quotes

PRAISE FOR RESCUE:

"Fans of Anita Shreve will likely devour this new novel..."—Entertainment Weekly

"[Rescue] is Shreve at her best, looking at a family tragedy and the events that caused those involved to reevaluate their past and to find the courage to possibly change their lives."—Associated Press