Fortune's rocks : a novel /
Anita Shreve.
- This edition published in 2001
- London : Abacus, 2000
- 453 pages : 20 cm
In 1890s Boston, a 15-year-old upper-class girl is banished to a convent following an affair with a married doctor which left her pregnant. The girl is forced to surrender the child for adoption, but she subsequently goes to court to recuperate it, and eventually marries the doctor. A study in the mores and manners of the day.