Stella Bain is not one of Anita Shreve’s best books. She writes such easy prose; I really admire it. But this story seemed thin to me somehow. A woman leave her children and her abusive husband to join the British army as a nurse in order to track the man who her husband coerced their young daughter to wrongly accuse of abuse. Wow. That felt like a stretch to me. The story of her time in the war was gruesome and probably totally accurate. She finds the man and then abruptly loses her memory when she receives him as a patient, horribly disfigured. Her journey back to memory and her children is the second part of the book.
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