The Reserve

Banks is a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters This is Banks' most commercial novel to date: a guilty pleasure with the feel of a 1930s movie For fans of Snow Falling on Cedars, The Bridges of Madison County and the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald

An addictively readable story of lives lived under the encroaching shadow of WWIIJuly, 1936. Vanessa Cole, notorious for her scandalous affairs with the rich and famous, has returned to her parents' home after the collapse of her second marriage. Rumours are rife as the family gathers to celebrate the 4th of July at the Adirondack Camp deep in their privately-owned wilderness, The Reserve, only to be interrupted by Jordan Groves, who brazenly lands his bi-plane on the pristine Second Lake. Groves is easy prey for Vanessa's blend of electrifying charm and destructiveness. But in order to protect his two young sons and his marriage, he must try to keep his distance. Especially when it becomes clear that Vanessa carries a deeply scarring family secret.