friendship, and the beautiful island of Nantucket where she’s lived for 39 years with her husband Charley Walters and their spoiled cat Callie. Sometimes they invite their thousands of grandchildren to visit. She loves libraries, bookstores, and zoom parties.
Thayer's novels have appeared on the New York Times best-seller lists, in Redbook, Good Housekeeping, and Cosmo UK, and are translated into many languages.
Her novel Let It Snow was made into a Hallmark Christmas movie entitled Nantucket Noel in 2021.
A Fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in 1983, she was awarded the RT 2015 Career Achievement Award for Mainstream Fiction.
Thayer applied the Page 69 Test to her new novel, Summer Light on Nantucket, and reported the following:
On page 69 of Summer Light on Nantucket, Blythe Benedict, 45, is chatting with Celeste, her ex-mother-in-law and good friend.Visit Nancy Thayer's website.
Celeste remarks that Blythe is glowing after talking with a handsome man.
Holly, 11, slips up to take her mother's hand, and as they walk out into the evening, Blythe thinks about her four children, how sweet and adorable they were when they were young, and how the two oldest ones, in their late teens, are not quite so adorable.
This novel is about families and the wonderful and difficult complications of being part of a family. It's about a divorced mother falling in love again--with her children all around her. It's about two women who care for each other in spite of the divorce between them. It's about a mother balancing her days between her children's needs and her own newly-discovered adult desires. It's about many different kinds of love and being present to enjoy them all, even while being present for the newest crisis--a rash, a broken heart, an ex-husband's secret. It’s about a woman who sees her husband’s girlfriend kissing another man.
It's about the summer light on a beautiful island, how clear it can be, how it illuminates life, how a man’s gaze can feel like sunlight on a cold day.
Yes, page 69 captures the essence of my new novel.
The Page 69 Test: Summer House.
The Page 69 Test: Beachcombers.
My Book, The Movie: Beachcombers.
Writers Read: Nancy Thayer (May 2015).
My Book, The Movie: The Guest Cottage.
The Page 69 Test: The Guest Cottage.
The Page 69 Test: Summer Love.
Writers Read: Nancy Thayer.
My Book, The Movie: Summer Light on Nantucket.
--Marshal Zeringue
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