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Eddie Grant is happy with her life and her work as a personal assistant to Dinah Lavender, one of the most famous and renowned romance authors in the business. But being a spectator to notoriety and glamour isn’t as fulfilling as she once thought. Thankfully, Eddie has the perfect excuse for a vacation: Her hardworking younger sister, Barrett, is opening her gift shop on Memorial Day weekend, and could use all the help she can get.
But going home to the beautiful island of Nantucket means facing the family’s difficult past. Shortly after the death of Eddie and Barrett’s brother, their mother left them and their father made the spontaneous decision to buy a small farm. Eddie stayed there for only a year before her family’s grief threatened to consume her as well, and had been living in Manhattan ever since. Now that she is back, Eddie must face all she left behind: her father’s increased eccentricities, which has led to a house bursting at the seams with books; her sister’s resentment over Eddie’s escape; and a past love connection, one that is still undeniable and complicated, all these years later. But the Grant sisters are nothing if not resilient and capable, opening a used bookstore in their father’s abandoned barn to manage his hoarding, and navigating the discovery of a long-buried family secret that will change all of them forever.
In The Summer We Started Over, beloved storyteller Nancy Thayer transports readers with a moving story about family, courage, and the resiliency of young women.
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9780593724033
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EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9780593724033
- File size: 5480 KB
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- English
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Reviews
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December 1, 2023
Thayer, known for her best-selling Nantucket-set novels, offers a heartwarming story timed to kick off the season of beach reads. This newest keeps to Thayer's key themes, following a family as they reunite and confront the past, along with long-held secrets. Prepub Alert.
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April 1, 2024
Eddie Grant leads a fabulous life in New York City as assistant to best-selling romance writer Dinah Lavender. But her sister Barrett calls her home to Nantucket to help take care of their father, who has buried himself in writing a book about romantic poets ever since their brother Stearns died, and their mother deserted them. Their rambling farmhouse, complete with an ornery horse, is bursting with books, so the sisters decide to open a used book store in the barn for the summer, while Barrett opens her posh boutique in town. They contract Jeff, Eddie's ex, to build the bookshelves, and he brings salt-of-the-earth carpenter Paul along. Barrett is instantly smitten, but she's also contending with the attentions of a summer person, Drew. Then Dinah shows up, fleeing a stalker in the city, and a woman from Stearns' past arrives with a secret. Thayer's latest Nantucket confection, after All the Days of Summer (2023), is breezy, awash in details about books, stocking a small boutique, cooking a family meal, and the simple pleasures of the island.COPYRIGHT(2024) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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