BEACHCOMBERS by Nancy Thayer - Book Blog Tour Stop!

I am so pleased to be hosting a blog tour stop for the fabulous book, “Beachcombers” by Nancy Thayer. This is one of those summertime books that readers are sure to really enjoy – full of friendship, romance, and hot sexy encounters … who can ask for more!

About The Book:

Abbie Fox hasn’t seen her father or two younger sisters in almost two years, during which she’s jetted around the world and experienced life, if not love. But now Lily, the baby of the family, is sending Abbie urgent emails begging her to return home to Nantucket.

Their middle sister, Emma, has taken to her bed, emotionally devastated after the loss of her high-powered stockbroker’s job and a shockingly unexpected break-up with her fiancé.

Also, Lily is deeply worried that Marina, the beautiful, enigmatic woman renting their guesthouse, has set her sights on the sisters’ widowed father, Jim. The Fox girls closed ranks years ago after the haunting, untimely death of their mother, but seeing their dad move on with his life forces each of them to take stock.

Over the course of the summer, the sisters’ lives grow as turbulent as the unpredictable currents encircling Nantucket. When Abbie encounters an incredibly appealing married man, she breaks her own rules in the name of love, fearing all the while that she’ll regret it.

Meanwhile, type-A Emma learns a new definition of success, and strong-minded Lily must reconcile her dreams with reality. Even Marina, who has come to Nantucket to forget heartbreak and betrayal, faces an astonishing turn of events that will find her torn between fate and freedom. At summer’s end, these unforgettable women will face profound choices—and undergo personal transformations that will surprise even themselves

My Thoughts:

“Beachcombers” is one of those books that when you are through reading it, you want to pass it along to one of your girlfriends to share because it is so good!

Nancy Thayer has created a cast of memorable characters in the Fox girls, the men who adore and lust after them, their handsome father Jim, and the charming and mysterious Marina. Following their adventures, triumphs and tragedies, readers will soon feel as these folks are old friends and neighbors. You’ll find yourself cheering for the Fox family and booing the few folks they have problems with.

And it is rare that an ending of a book touches me as much as the ending of “Beachcombers.” It was one of those shivery, lovely feelings – a satifying conclusion to a charming story.

“Beachcombers is definitely a book you want to savor and enjoy this summer – whether you’re at the beach, or on your own front porch. Just don’t forget to pass it along to a friend.


About The Author:

Nancy Thayer is the New York Times bestselling author of Summer House, Moon Shell Beach, The Hot Flash Club, The Hot Flash Club Strikes Again, Hot Flash Holidays, The Hot Flash Club Chills Out, and Between Husbands and Friends. She lives on Nantucket. You can visit Nancy Thayer’s website at www.NancyThayer.com.

Check out this video as Nancy reads a passage from "Beachcombers."

My Thanks to Dorothy Thompson and Pump Up Your Book Promotions for inviting me to host this blog tour stop! For more information on other authors and book blog tours, check out their website at www.pumpupyourbooks.com

I received a copy of this book from the book promoter in exchange for an honest review. I was not compensated for my opionion.

Hold Up The Sky by Patricia Sprinkle

Billie Waits and Margaret Baxter are sisters who grew up on their father’s diary farm in Solace, Georgia. But as they became adults, their lives each took decidedly different turns. Margaret married well, moved to nearby Marietta and lived the upper middle class life she dreamed of. Billie stayed home, got married, had a child and never left Solace.

But one summer, the two women’s lives would once again converge, and the bonds of sisterhood would slowly begin to intertwine them back together again. It wouldn’t be easy, and it was surely bound to be painful, but when it’s family, love always softens the way back home.

In Patricia Sprinkle’s new novel, “Hold Up The Sky,” she tells the story of redemption and reconnection in a warm, heartfelt tale that will leave the reader smiling through their tears when they are not weeping with laughter.

When Margaret Baxter’s husband leaves her and her two sons, she packs up the car and heads home to Solace, the last place on earth she wants to be but the only place on earth where she needs to be. Moving in with her widowed father, Maggie would soon relearn the country ways of her childhood but not without a few hard lessons in the process.

Although she never left, Margaret’s sister Billie had more than a few trials of her own. Her husband left her right after the birth of their disabled daughter, and has come up missing lately. As Billie struggles to get by, Luke, a childhood friend returns to lend a helping hand and Billie soon learns to open her heart to new possibilities.

As the sisters learn to readjust to living near one another again, their much-loved elderly housekeeper Mamie does her best to teach them life skills that would see them through the rest of their days. The ladies would be joined by Emerita, a Mexican immigrant stranded near the farm, and the foursome began relationships forged by the heat of a summer kitchen and solidified in places of the heart that only women can know so well.

“Hold Up The Sky” is a novel filled with humor, inspiration, love and romance. Patricia Sprinkle reaches her readers through her timeless storytelling skills, securing her place as a favorite and beloved author among women fiction writers today.

"If you don't understand how a woman could both love her sister dearly and want to wring her neck at the same time, then you were probably an only child."

~Linda Sunshine