Surfside Sisters, Nancy Thayer
Surfside Sisters, Nancy Thayer
32 Rating(s)
List: $29.99 | Sale: $21.00
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Surfside Sisters

Bestseller

Author: Nancy Thayer

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell

Unabridged: 10 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/02/2019


Synopsis

“Nancy Thayer is the queen of beach books.”—The Star-LedgerA Nantucket woman returns home to find that reunions aren’t always simple, in this heartwarming novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Nantucket Wedding and Secrets in Summer.Keely Green always dreamed of leaving the beautiful shores of Nantucket to become a writer. Now she’s a bestselling novelist living in New York City, attending glamorous cocktail parties and mingling with the literary elite. Keely is also dating a charming, perfectly fine pediatric surgeon who looks good on paper but isn’t “the one.” She just can’t bear to break it off—until he declares his desire to settle down. Then Keely’s editor rejects her latest novel. With her personal and professional lives suddenly in shambles, Keely longs for the soothing island way of life.Growing up, Keely and her best friend, Isabelle, were inseparable. Nothing could come between them—except, as it turned out, Keely’s high school boyfriend, Tommy. Returning home would mean facing Isabelle’s bitter betrayal and seeing for herself the family Tommy and Isabelle have created, the life that might have been Keely’s.But when Keely’s mother falls into a deep depression, Keely knows what she must do, even though she is reluctant to face her estranged friend. And encountering Isabelle’s older brother, Sebastian—Keely’s longtime crush—only complicates things.In one incredible summer, Keely must confront the mistakes of the past if she has any chance of finding true happiness in the place she will always call home. Nancy Thayer shines yet again in this uplifting tale of forgiveness and self-discovery.

About Nancy Thayer

Nancy Thayer is the New York Times bestselling author of A Nantucket Wedding, Secrets in Summer, The Island House, The Guest Cottage, An Island Christmas, Nantucket Sisters, A Nantucket Christmas, Island Girls, Summer Breeze, Heat Wave, Beachcombers, Summer House, Moon Shell Beach, and The Hot Flash Club. She lives on Nantucket.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Katie on June 29, 2019

3.5 stars I've been wanting to read a book by this author for awhile and this one looked like it would be a good summertime read. This one definitely held my interest but I do think some of the relationships the main character had with other people could have been better developed. It was hard to und......more

Goodreads review by Laurie on July 07, 2019

I really wanted to like "Surfside Sisters" by Nancy Thayer, but most of the characters not only weren't likeable, in a lot of cases I found them to be incredibly annoying and juvenile. I also found myself rolling my eyes at the book's ending. (That in and of itself made me reduce my rating from 3 st......more

Goodreads review by Carlene on July 08, 2019

Find more at Carlene Inspired. When I'm laying out, enjoying the sound of the waves or sipping a sweet drink poolside, I love a good frivolous read. I like books that make me zone out, that let me be a lazy reader, that don't require a lot of involvement from my brain and emotions. Surfside Sisters i......more

Goodreads review by Beverly on July 20, 2019

I have wanted to read a Nancy Thayer book for a long time because all of them sound like entertaining beach reads. I had expected to like this book a lot. But, honestly, I felt like I was reading a YA novel. The main character, her relationship with her best friend, the dialogue, the conflicts....ev......more

Goodreads review by Darla on June 24, 2019

This book surprised me. We meet Keely and Isabelle when they are young and both want to write novels. They are BFFs all through school, but then things get complicated. Sometimes it seems as if they are competing against each other and in the background is the crush Keely has on Isabelle's elusive o......more