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The Beach House |
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| Book: Hardcover | 5.51 x 8.26in | 352 pages | ISBN 9780670018857 | 17 Jun 2008 | Viking Adult | 18 - AND UP |
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She’s known as the crazy woman who lives in the big old rambling house on the top of a bluff in Nantucket, but at
sixty-five-years old, Nan doesn’t care what people think. If her neighbours are away, why shouldn’t she skinny dip in
their swimming pools? Her husband died twenty years ago, her beauty has faded, her family flown, and when she
discovers that the money she thought would last forever is running out and she may lose her beloved house, she knows
she has to make drastic changes. Slowly people start moving in to the house, filling it with noise again, with laughter,
and with tears. There is Daniel, recently divorced and a father of two girls, who is struggling to find out who he really is,
and Daff, the single mother of a truculent teenager who blames her unreservedly for the divorce. As the house comes
alive again, Nan finds her family extending. Her son comes home for the summer, and then an unexpected visitor
throws all their lives upside down.
“Green gives you a clear sense of Nantucket’s weathered splendor and offers up a refreshing summertime getaway…best read on a deck chair somewhere.”
—Chicago Sun-Times
“A sweetly memorable summer story, capturing the relaxing, renewing quality of life at the shore. . .”
—New Orleans Times-Picayune
“Breezy…deeply appealing.”
—Connecticut Post
“Green’s best novel in years, a compelling, unputdownable read.”
—Booklist
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