The Beach House
 | By Jane Green Viking Adult, 2008, Hardcover Customer Rating: 112 reviews Recommend |
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The perfect title for the perfect beach read from the New York Times bestselling Author
Jane Green is one of the preeminent authors of women’s fiction today, and with each new novel, her audience grows. Green’s avid and loyal fans follow her because she writes about the true-to-life dilemmas of women—and The Beach House will not disappoint.
Known in Nantucket as the crazy woman who lives in the rambling house atop the bluff, Nan doesn’t care what people think. At sixty-five-years old, her husband died twenty years ago, her beauty has faded, and her family has flown. If her neighbors are away, why shouldn’t she skinny dip in their swimming pools and help herself to their flowers? But when she discovers the money she thought would last forever is dwindling and she could lose her beloved house, Nan knows she has to make drastic changes.
So Nan takes out an ad: Rooms to rent for the summer in a beautiful old Nantucket home with water views and direct access to the beach. Slowly, people start moving into the house, filling it with noise, with laughter, and with tears. As the house comes alive again, Nan finds her family expanding. Her son comes home for the summer, and then an unexpected visitor turns all their lives upside-down.
Title: The Beach House
Sales Rank: 234 in Books
Author: Jane Green
Publisher: Viking Adult, 2008-06-17, Hardcover, 352 pages, ISBN: 0670018856
Package Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 1.5 inches, 0.75 pounds
- The Beach House
- A good summer choice for vacation time. Easy to read. There are some issues surrounding homosexuality that I think are handled well. I liked the book.… More reviews
- Perhaps next time a little more charm and a little less fluff?
- Perhaps my first mistake is that this is simply not the type of book I usually read. I have never before read Jane Green and only picked up this book because a magazine recommended it and I thought a quirky old lady in Nantucket would be delightul and whimsical.
I just don't like to sit around and read melo-dramatic soap operas starring characters… More reviews
- The Beach House
- I really enjoyed this book. Not having read any of Jane Green's writing, I went with the notion that as a best seller, it had to be good. And I was not disapointed. I love the East coast (I'm from the West coast)and Nantucket is a favorite. You can tell from her descriptions and characters she did a lot of research on both, and I'm… More reviews
- wonderful book
- Light, fun summer reading. Green's style is very intimate. I felt as though she was sitting across the table from me and telling me the details of her characters lives. And what characters they are. Motivation is something that always look for. Many times it's hard to find. But here the characters' actions and feelings make sense. More reviews
- An Easy Read
- An easy read with nothing too mind straining, but totally enjoying. Holds your interest while not taxing the brain. … More reviews
