Maybe it's just me, but Nancy Thayer seems to be getting a lot more "romancey" than she used to be and I'm not a big fan of novels that focus too much on lust. That's NOT to say that it wasn't a good book. Thayer always comes through with her wonderful descriptions of the Nantucket weather and lifestyle. She makes you feel the sea breezes and smell the salt air.
Darcy Cotterill, the main character, is a divorced librarian living in her Grandmother's old house on Nantucket. She has friends, a man in her life, and a job she loves. During the summer the population of Nantucket swells and Darcy meets and develops some unlikely friendships with her summer neighbors, a harried mother and her philandering husband, an elderly woman and her devastating handsome (and single) grandson, and Darcy's own ex-husband, staying with his new wife (the one he left Darcy for) and adopted daughter, Willow, a 14-year-old who turns to Darcy for the guidance her parents are not providing.
This is not my favorite Nancy Thayer novel. Darcy spends a little bit too much time considering potential romantic partners (who assumes that when one is in an intimate 3-month relationship, but no one has mentioned that it is "exclusive," that it might be OK to consider sleeping with someone else?), but the relationship that develops between Darcy, Willow, her elderly neighbor, and the harried mother of 3 during the summer is one that is worth reading about. I give this 3 1/2 stars, but I'd go higher if I was more interested in the romance part!
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