Nancy Thayer

Book Review: The Hot Flash Club

June 7, 2011

Synopsis: Alice has, over the course of a thirty-six year career, climbed to the top of the corporate ladder. But now she is sixty-two years old and her company is merging with another corporation. Alison Cummings, a brash, younger, unmarried, childless executive from the other organization has an MBA from Harvard — as well as […]

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Book Review: Beachcombers

July 7, 2010

Four women. Each at a crossroads in her life. Each unsure what her future will be like, aside from the fact that it will bear no resemblance to her recent past. One beautiful summer on Nantucket island leads to personal discoveries, revelations, growth … transformations. Sound like the theme of a perfect summer novel? Indeed […]

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Guest Post: The Idea for Beachcombers

July 2, 2010

The idea for Beachcombers came to me when I was literally walking on the beach. I was thinking about mermaids, specifically the Hans Christian Anderson story in which the mermaid, in order to be with the man she loves, can walk on land, but only at the cost of great pain. Well, I thought, isn’t […]

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Teaser Tuesday: Summer House

June 22, 2010

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading. Each week participants open to a random page in the book they are currently reading and share two (or three) “teaser” sentences from that page, being careful not to include spoilers, i.e. too much information that would ruin the experience of reading […]

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Book Review: Between Husbands and Friends

June 20, 2010

Having never heard of Nancy Thayer or read any of her books, I was excited by the opportunity to read and review her upcoming novel, Beachcombers. However, before I received my advance review copy of that book, I decided to read some of her older work, beginning with Between Husbands and Friends, originally published in 1999. […]

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