Nancy Thayer in Conversation with Brooke Lea Foster
About this Event
Titcomb's Bookshop presents New York Times bestselling author and beloved Nantucket storyteller Nancy Thayer to speak about her novel, , on Wednesday, July 23rd at 6:30pm at Titcomb's Bookshop. Thayer will be in conversation with author Brooke Lea Foster, whose new novel publishes on July 1st.
Books will be for sale at the event, and Thayer will sign them after her presentation. Those who cannot attend may order a signed copy here.
Free RSVP is requested and can be completed on this page or by calling Titcomb's Bookshop at 508-888-2331.
ABOUT NANCY THAYER
Nancy Thayer is the New York Times bestselling author of more than thirty novels, including All the Days of Summer, Summer Love, Family Reunion, Girls of Summer, Let It Snow, Surfside Sisters, A Nantucket Wedding, Secrets in Summer, The Island House, The Guest Cottage, An Island Christmas, Nantucket Sisters, and Island Girls. Born in Kansas, Thayer has for forty years been a resident of Nantucket, where she currently lives with her husband, Charley, and a precocious rescue cat named Callie.
ABOUT SUMMER LIGHT ON NANTUCKET
A touching novel about parenthood, first love, family bonds, and rekindled relationships from the New York Times bestselling author and beloved Nantucket storyteller Nancy Thayer.
Blythe Benedict is content. Her life didn’t end when her marriage did. In fact, she’s more than happy living in her comfortable house in Boston, working as a middle school teacher, and raising four wonderful children. With three of her kids in the throes of teenagerhood and one not too far behind them, Blythe has plenty of drama to keep her busy every single day.
But no amount of that drama could change the family’s beloved annual summer trip to Nantucket. Blythe has always treasured the months spent at her island home-away-from-home, and has fond memories of her children growing up there. But this summer’s getaway proves to be much more than she bargained for.
Yes, there are sunny days enjoyed at the beach. But Blythe must contend with teenage angst, her ex-mother-in-law’s declining health, and a troubling secret involving her ex-husband. Meanwhile, Blythe reconnects with her first love, her former high school sweetheart Aaden. But their second-time-around romance becomes complicated when another intriguing man enters the picture.
It’s all a bit out of Blythe’s comfort zone. This particular island summer may not be as relaxing as Blythe had hoped, but she’s never felt that life has given her more than she can handle—especially when she has the love and support of her family around her.
ABOUT BROOKE LEA FOSTER
Brooke Lea Foster is an award-winning author and journalist whose articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Boston Globe and The Washington Post Magazine. Her novels, Summer Darlings, On Gin Lane, and All the Summers in Between have been named top summer reads in magazines like People, Entertainment Weekly, First and PARADE. She writes the popular Dear Fiction newsletter and she's the author of three nonfiction books. Our Last Vineyard Summer is her fourth novel.
ABOUT OUR LAST VINEYARD SUMMER
From the “great storyteller” (Natalie Jenner, author of The Jane Austen Society) Brooke Lea Foster, a captivating new novel set in 1965 and 1978 about a graduate student who returns with her sisters to their family’s summer home on Martha’s Vineyard and begins to unravel old family secrets.
After suffering through her first year of graduate school at Columbia following her senator father’s death, Betsy Whiting is hoping to spend the summer with her boyfriend…and hopefully end the summer as his fiancée. Instead, her mother—a longtime feminist and leader in the women’s movement—calls Betsy and her sisters back home to Martha’s Vineyard, announcing that they need to sell their beloved summer house to pay off their father’s debts.
When Betsy arrives on the island a week later, she must reckon with her strained familial relationships, a long-ago forbidden romance, and the complicated legacy of her parents, who divided the family even as they did good for the world.
Following a dual timeline between 1965 and 1978, and filled with the vibrant, sunlit nostalgia of the cherished New England vacation setting, Our Last Vineyard Summer poignantly captures two generations of women navigating love, loss, and womanhood while trying to find the courage to stand up for what they believe in—and the strength to decide if the home they once loved is worth saving.
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