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|title=Body Surfing

|author=Anita Shreve

|date=March 2007

|isbn=978-0316730693

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Sydney Sklar has a most unfortunate marital history. Her first husband was an air racer. Initially Sydney found the races exhilarating and then she found them frightening. Eventually she could take no more and the couple divorced. Andrew was sad to see her go, but didn't offer to give up air racing. Her second husband was a doctor - a much safer prospect. After only eight months of marriage a brain aneurism left him dead on the floor of one of the best teaching hospitals in the world. Numb with shock and not yet thirty Sydney took a job tutoring an eighteen-year-old girl at her parents' beach house in New Hampshire. She lived as one of the family, a part of it but somehow apart. ''Body Surfing'' is the story of the summer she lived in the house and afterwards.