Synopses & Reviews
From the surf of Maine to lakeshore Milwaukee to Canada's Pacific mists, each of the Wallace women-- a mother and her two daughters-- is looking across her treasured home waters to the horizons of change...
MARGARET has gone from a matronly doctor's wife who carried everyone's burdens to a svelte single, her hard-won freedom invaded by a compassion she dare not feel...
Her daughter DAISY turns desperately to her mother-- pregnant with her third child, her cozy, sloppy, domestic world ripped apart by her husband's elopement with a sexy young journalist...
Sophisticated DALE's heady, obsessive passion for a co-teacher is shadowed by her mother's and sister's divorces. Is this the perilous price tag of love and belonging?
These three women-- warm, funny and courageous-- are about to ride a bittersweet merry-go-round of joy and pain, love and illusion, reconciliation and rediscovery, in this classic bestseller that has won the hearts of women everywhere.
Review
"Compelling, absorbing and rich."--
Publishers Weekly"The most honest, deeply felt book about contemporary women that I know."-- Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
"A superb woman's book...Sparkling with a radiance of its own...A joy to read."-- Chicago Tribune
About the Author
Nancy Thayer is the author of ten novels, including
Belonging,
Family Secrets and
Everlasting, a Main Dual Selection of the Literary Guild. Presently, she makes her home in Nantucket, Massachusetts.