Book
Summer house : a novel / Nancy Thayer.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780345498205
- Physical Description: 351 p. ; 24 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, 2009.
Content descriptions
| Target Audience Note: | All Ages. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Women > Family relationships > Fiction. Nantucket Island (Mass.) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Domestic fiction. Women's fiction. Domestic fiction. |
Available copies
- 13 of 13 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Smithers Public Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 13 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Smithers Public Library | F THA (Text) | 35101000431176 | Stacks | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Bringing together three generations of strong-willed women, each wrestling with life-changing decisions, Thayer's luminous new novel shows that no matter where life's path may lead, love always finds a way back home. - Baker & Taylor
Follows the lives, loves, and fortunes of three generations of headstrong women as they convene at their Nantucket homestead where they are forced to come to terms with their life choices and the meaning of family. - Random House, Inc.
After years of wandering from whim to whim, thirty-year-old Charlotte Wheelwright seems to have at last found her niche. The free spirit enjoys running an organic gardening business on the island of Nantucket, thanks in large part to her spry grandmother Nona, who donated a portion of land on the familyâs seaside compound to get Charlotte started. Though Charlotteâs skill with plants is bringing her success, cultivating something deeper with peopleâparticularly her handsome neighbor Coopâmight be more of a challenge.
Nonaâs generosity to Charlotte, secretly her favorite grandchild, doesnât sit well with the rest of the Wheelwright clan, however, as they worry that Charlotte may be positioning herself to inherit the entire estate. With summer upon them, everyone is making their annual pilgrimage to the homesteadâsome with hopes of thwarting Charlotteâs dreams, others in anticipation of Nonaâs latest pronouncements at the annual family meeting, and still others with surprising news of their own. Charlotteâs mother, Helen, a Wheelwright by marriage, brings a heavy heart. She once set aside her own ambitions to fit in with the Wheelwrights, but now she must confront a betrayal that threatens both her sense of place and her sense of self.
As summer progresses, these three womenâCharlotte, Nona, and Helenâcome to terms with the decisions they have made. Revisiting the lives and loves that have crossed their paths and the possibilities of the roads not taken, they may just discover that what theyâve always sought was right in front of them all along.
