Anna's husband Ned didn't want children, or so he said. Indeed, when she found herself pregnant and insisted on keeping her baby, he threw up his hands and proceeded to ignore both her and the child for years until Anna took her daughter and left him. But once they were gone, he suddenly insisted on finding them and bringing them home. Then, since she hadn't legally divorced him or agreed on custody, Anna was frightened and tried to hide.
But Ned kept finding her. She ended up on the lonely coast of Maine in a seaside motel. And although it was winter, more and more people started showing up to stay there too, people who seemed to kind of know each other. Anna wondered if she was being paranoid, but she felt a sinking certainly that Ned was going to catch them...
I really enjoyed this book to start out with. I liked the character of Anna and the unusual things she experienced after her baby's birth (I'm trying to avoid spoilers!), but later in the book I started to like it less. There were some very strange elements, slipping the plot out of the realm of reality, that were simply not explained. Did Ned have extraordinary powers somehow? Or was he just mean and lucky? Was Anna crazy? Nobody explains any of this.
It was mostly a good book....
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