Girls of Summer

A Novel

By: Nancy Thayer

Narrated by: Kate Rudd

One life-changing summer on Nantucket brings about exhilarating revelations for a single mother and her two grown children in this sensational novel from New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer.

Lisa Hawley is perfectly satisfied living on her own. Having fully recovered from a brutal divorce nearly two decades earlier, she has successfully raised her kids, Juliet and Theo, seeing them off to college and beyond. As the owner of a popular boutique on Nantucket, she’s built a fulfilling life for herself on the island where she grew up. With her beloved house in desperate need of repair, Lisa calls on Mack Whitney, a friendly - and very handsome - local contractor and fellow single parent, to do the work. The two begin to grow close, and Lisa is stunned to realize that she might be willing to open up again after all...despite the fact that Mack is ten years her junior.

Juliet and Theo worry that Mack will only break their mother’s heart - and they can’t bear to see her hurt again. Both stuck in ruts of their own, they each hope that a summer on Nantucket will provide them with the clarity they’ve been searching for. When handsome entrepreneur Ryder Hastings moves to the island to expand his environmental nonprofit, Juliet, an MIT-educated web designer, feels an immediate attraction, one her rocky love life history pushes her to deny at first. Meanwhile, free spirit Theo finds his California bliss comes to a brutal halt when a surfing injury forces him back to the East Coast. Upon his return, he has eyes only for Mack’s daughter, Beth, to whom he is bound by an unspeakable tragedy from high school. Can they overcome their past?

As the season unfolds, a storm threatens to shatter the peace of the golden island, forcing Lisa, Juliet, and Theo to decide whether their summer romances are destined for something more profound. Nancy Thayer dazzles again in this delightful tale of family, a reminder that sometimes, finding our way back home can bring us unexpected gifts.

©2020 Nancy Thayer (P)2020 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Good beach read !!

Nancy Thayer fans will enjoy this a lot ! It’s a nice story and makes me want to go to Nantucket.

Good story but,,

Good story but missing some important details. Distracted by readers make impersonations, sounded too harsh

Story better than audio

This story would have been more enjoyable for me if the audio had not been so stilted and monotonous. The story had some interesting dynamics set in a beautiful part of the country, but the instalove was not at all believable. Who meets a person and asks them to basically marry you after one date... nobody. The most realistic part of the book was the past high school romance.

Not her best!

I’m a big Nancy Thayer fan but I have to say. This fell short of what I was expecting. It perhaps could have been then awful narration. She sounded like a robot. Very mechanical and unnatural speech. Her impressions of the male voice was better than the women. While a decent story, my advice is take it or leave it.

Old Town Charm

I loved this book! It's an old fashioned story. The characters in the book are so real, I feel like I know them.