Nancy Thayer is the author of over 30 novels, including FAMILY REUNION, SUMMER HOUSE, THE HOT FLASH CLUB, BEACHCOMBERS, ISLAND GIRLS, THE GUEST COTTAGE, THE ISLAND HOUSE and SECRETS IN SUMMER.

Her books concern the mysteries and romance of families and relationships: marriage and friendships, divorce and love, custody and step parenting, family secrets and private self-affirmation, the quest for independence and the normal human hunger for personal connections.

Nancy Thayer’s work has been translated into many languages, including German, Finnish, Hebrew, Russian, Turkish, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, Serbo-Croatian, Swedish, Danish and Polish. Her novels have been condensed or excerpted in several literary reviews and magazines, including Redbook and Good Housekeeping, England’s Cosmopolitan, Holland’s Viva and South Africa’s Personality.

Nancy Thayer has a B.A. and M.A. in English literature from the University of Missouri at Kansas City. She was a Fellow at the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference in 1981. In 2015, she was awarded the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award for Mainstream Fiction. She has lived on Nantucket Island year-round for 33 years with her husband, Charley Walters. Her daughter is the novelist Samantha Wilde.

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Nancy Thayer