I started out liking this book more than the last one I read by Nancy Thayer. I could relate better to the characters who, while still living on fabulous Nantucket Island, were mainly regular working class people. I certainly can relate to a story about sisters who don't always get along but rel...
Another Nantucket summer by Nancy Thayer, although this one spans about 65 years with the flashbacks as told by Charlottes grandmother. I enjoyed this very much once I got into the first few chapters..wasnt sure how I would like reading the history flashbacks of her granny. But it really gave a i...
wow...what an emotional ride. Love how Carley finally came to her senses and admitted she needed loved, support, passion, and happiness too. I think she loved Gus, but was never in passionate love with him. She grieved more for her kids than herself. Maude was so selfish and greedy, glad she did...
Though I like most books with Nantucket as it's setting (and there are a lot out there), the characters, their interactions with each other, as well as plot developments were all too contrived. I can admit I can indulge in and enjoy the more mundane of the chic lit genre, but finding all loose e...
This was a nice enough little book - - I would have given it 2.5 stars if I could because it was halfway between "it was ok" and "I liked it" - - -but when you have trouble reading the last 2 chapters because the ending is so predictable, I just couldn't go any higher than two stars. Thayer does...
This book features around the Wheelwright family who are located for their summer vacation in Nantucket Island.The story is mostly based on Charlotte, who has her garden, her brothers and family. Charlotte has a past secret which its not revealed until the final pages of the book... this makes yo...
A beautiful family story. It is about a dysfuntioncial family which had conflicts from a spoiled daughter and ex-wife and new baby and a dog. It turned out good. A new baby fixing the love in the family by bring love to new wife of grandfather and spoiled daughter. The new wife of grandfather was...
The reading slump is deep and dark. Sometimes desperate times call for desperate measures. Queue up the cheesy Christmas reads. Yes, I know it is March. But I need a Christmas reading miracle.This book was just, eh. Sebastian and Nicole have gotten married later in life. Sebastian moved from a co...
Nancy Thayer has an immense ability for capturing and conveying the complexity of women. Wonderful story!From back cover:"From the surf of Maine to lakeshore Milwaukee to Canada's Pacific mists, each of the Wallace women, a mother and her two daughters, is looking across her treasured home waters...
My Readers Roundtable review of this book:In many respects, The Hot Flash Club by Nancy Thayer is chick-lit for the over-forty crowd. It’s also more—a literary melange of sassy, edgy, somber, enlightening, adventurous, funny, sad, and hopeful womanhood.It is indisputably a woman’s book, although ...
THIS SUMMARY/REVIEW WAS COPIED FROM OTHER SOURCES AND IS USED ONLY AS A REMINDER OF WHAT THE BOOK WAS ABOUT FOR MY PERSONAL INTEREST. ANY PERSONAL NOTATIONS ARE FOR MY RECOLLECTION ONLYLikes the first one better :-)Listened to The Hot Flash Club Strikes Again (Hot Flash Club #2)by Nancy Thayer. T...
THIS SUMMARY/REVIEW WAS COPIED FROM OTHER SOURCES AND IS USED ONLY AS A REMINDER OF WHAT THE BOOK WAS ABOUT FOR MY PERSONAL INTEREST. ANY PERSONAL NOTATIONS ARE FOR MY RECOLLECTION ONLYSince opening up their day spa, The Haven, the wonderful women of the Hot Flash Club have been busy indulging th...
The intrepid women of The Hot Flash Club are back for the holidays, soothing jingled nerves and stressed shoppers in their exclusive spa and celebrating the joys of the season. In her witty and delightfully wisecracking prose, Nancy Thayer tells a heartwarming tale packed with fun, secrets, roman...
Now available for the first time as an eBook, the dynamic debut novel from beloved "New York Times" bestselling author Nancy Thayer explores the steep challenges of a woman trying to do what's best--for her family and for herself. Zelda Campbell was just a college student when she met and fell ...
Having married young, Lucy West - wife of Max West, the editor of a small-town Massachusetts newspaper - found herself occasionally troubled by a variety of doubts and questions which flitted through her thoughts. Will marriage fulfill your deepest desires? To whom should you be most loyal, your ...
Nell St. John is not happy with the way her life is going - not by a long shot. She was once a glamorous young actress, married to an influential director, Marlow St. John. Together, they were the toast of the town, an A-list couple destined for fame.But then Marlow's star fades and tensions at h...
My Dearest Friend by Nancy ThayerHave read most of the authors other works and they are always a joy to read.Daphne Miller has gone through many changes over the years and moves to VT. Her daughter has also moved clear across the country to live with her father, who's not even sent her a birthday...
Novelists Owen and Linda McFarland have been married for seven years. During that time, they have been incredibly happy together and have worked hard to make their blended family feel loved. Living on their beautiful little Massachusetts farm, Owen's son Bruce has grown into a handsome high schoo...
In this fast, steamy novel by New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer, residents of a seemingly picture perfect New England town struggle to hide their shocking secrets . . . until they can no longer. Now available for the first time as an eBook! From his position behind the pulpit, Reve...
Sara has a creative streak - she works as an editor in a publishing house, until she moves with her husband to a rural island in order to settle into a domestic life and start a family. But then the months go by and Sara does not conceive - she can't create the one thing she wants more and more. ...
She lay for a while appreciating the way the weak winter sun shone through the windows, filling this small room with a glazy light. Stretching, she looked at her wristwatch and was amazed to see that it was almost eleven o’clock. She glanced back over at John, alarmed—how could he still be sleepi...
He knew that. Of course he did. He wasn’t senile enough quite yet to think this robe of pink terry cloth with white piping and white flowers embroidered on the pockets was a man’s robe.The thing was, it was so damned comfortable. Once, by accident, in the days just after Madeline’s death, he’d ac...
With Piet in Amsterdam, everyone suffered. Sandra’s husband liked to pick her up at six o’clock sharp, when he’d finished his work at the accounting firm. With Catherine’s crowded schedule, she was often late, and Sandra was rattled, knowing that while she explained necessary information to Cathe...
Slow down.She could force her body to move with less haste. She took her time washing with her favorite perfumed soap and stood for a while enjoying the pounding of hot water between her shoulder blades.But her mind raced.George and Jilly had spent fifty thousand dollars on Lauren’s wedding. Laur...
She’d beavered away and accomplished a lot on the organization of her books this morning, and then she’d spent the afternoon relaxing as she skimmed through the pile of professional newspapers and magazines and journals which had been arriving in the mail. Nothing she came across seemed the sligh...
It was late afternoon and the boy who called him Pooh hadn’t brought him anything to eat since last night when he brought out that piece of excellent meat. He worried the boy had forgotten him. The light that came with morning was already fading. This was good for when Snix needed to sneak out of...
He wore board shorts and a T-shirt with a picture of a horse’s head on it and the words Why the long face? Little Leo followed, clutching a duffel bag to his chest. Like his father, he was fully dressed but barefoot. “Try it under the table, Leo,” Trevor told his son. “That won’t get in anyone’s ...
She wore mittens, a wool cap, and a vest because these spring mornings and evenings were still cold. During the day, especially working like a maniac in her shop, she was warm enough in jeans and a long-sleeved tee. Her assistant, Marlene, wasn’t coming in until nine, when they would open the sho...
It has allowed her to separate herself from Ben. It’s made it possible for both of them—Ben at Tufts in Boston, Emily at Smith in Northampton—to concentrate on their studies. Their passion simmers while they’re apart. Their phone calls and emails are a mixture of visions of the future when they’r...