All He Ever Wanted by Shreve, Anita - 2003

London: Little, Brown & Co, 2003. First edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine. Little, Brown & Co., London, 2003. First edition. Book condition: near fine - very slight tanning to the paper and a very minor lean to the spine. Dust jacket condition: near fine & unclipped with only the slightest shelf wear to the edges. It is a fire in a New Hampshire hotel that brings Nicholas Van Tassel and Etna Bliss together - two strangers grateful to have escaped the burning building with their lives. For Nicholas, it is also a chance meeting that lights up a lifelong passion, and sets in motion a pursuit of Etna that is to end in their marriage. But their life in the town of Thrupp is not everything they could have imagined. Many years later, on a train to Florida, Nicholas recounts their courtship,and their time together. as the threads of the story begin to unravel, what is revealed is a patchwork of promises, truths, secrets and lies, and a man, madly in love, for whom his wife is all he ever wanted...