Nancy Thayer's latest novel, about friendship and forgiveness.
REDBOOK magazine "Best friends
take center stage in this poignant testament to the enduring power
of the bond between women. An absorbing read about the things that
matter most in life. Give your best friend a copy of this big, beautiful
book!"
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Nantucket novelist Nancy Thayer is the author of eighteen novels, including The Hot Flash Series (Hot Flash Holidays, The Hot Flash Club, The Hot Flash Club Strikes Again), Custody, Between Husbands and Friends, An Act of Love, Belonging, Three Women at the Water's Edge, and Everlasting, a Main Dual selection of the Literary Guild in 1991. Nancy Thayer’s books concern the mysteries and romance of families and relationships: marriage and friendships, divorce and love, custody and step parenting, family secrets and private self-affirmation, the quest for independence and the normal human hunger for personal connections. Her work has been translated into German, Italian, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, French, Dutch, and Portuguese and her novels have been condensed or excerpted in several magazines, including a three-part mystery novella in Redbook. Her first novel, Stepping, was made into a 13-part series for BBC Radio and her ghost novel Spirit Lost was produced as a movie by United Image Entertainment.Nancy Thayer has a B.A. and M.A. in English literature from the University of Missouri at Kansas City. Before settling down to write and start a family, she taught English at various colleges and traveled, living in Paris, Amsterdam, and Helsinki. In 1981 she was a Fellow at the Breadloaf Writer's Conference.
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Meet Faye, Shirley, Marilyn, and Alice, four mature women with different life styles and problems, who meet, eat, and scheme. They help each other, their friends and their grown children. They change clothes, jobs, and men. Their friendship illuminates strengths they never knew they had, and solutions they never would have dreamed of alone.
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