About Nancy

Nancy Thayer is the author of 35 novels, including Summer Love, Family Reunion, A Nantucket Christmas, and The Hot Flash Club. Her books are about families, 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.

Her 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.


Critical Acclaim

Publisher’s Weekly said of Surfside Sisters, “Readers who appreciate a busy, uplifting tale of friendship and romance will enjoy spending time on Thayer’s Nantucket.”

BookBub included Surfside Sisters in their “Best Books of Summer for 2019”.

Booklist said of Surfside Sisters, “Thayer’s latest is a tale of friendship lost and found, with light romantic elements and a touch of family drama…Fans of Elin Hilderbrand and Shelley Noble should add Surfside Sisters to their beach bag.”

Kirkus Reviews said of Island Girls, “In this touching summer read, forgiveness benefits both the person bestowing it and the recipient.”

Lands’ End chose Summer Breeze as “the book to put in your beach bag this summer.”

The Boston Globe: “Thayer has the knack of creating likeable characters who grapple with problems that will strike a chord with many readers.”

Janet Maslin of The New York Times called Summer House “a well-wrought, appealing book packed with literally down to earth charm.”

The Miami Herald says, “Thayer portrays beautifully the small moments, inside stories and shared histories that build families. . .Summer House reminds us that life is complicated and that the simple pleasures of family togetherness are too precious to take granted.”

Beachcombers hits home for those of us who have loved, lost, and forgiven ourselves and others in the quest for love and serenity,” from the Wichita Falls Times Record News.

The Hot Flash Club was a New York Times Guilty Pleasures Pick, called “Frank and entertaining” by Janet Maslin.

The Boston Globe called The Hot Flash Club “Funny stuff. . .Thayer’s characters are nicely drawn and sympathetic.”

“Nancy Thayer’s gift for reaching the emotional core of her characters is captivating.” The Houston Chronicle.

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