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The Beach House | 
 enlarge | Author: Jane Green
Publisher: Viking Adult
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Rating:  116 reviews
Sales Rank: 224
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 1.5
ISBN: 0670018856
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780670018857
ASIN: 0670018856
Publication Date: June 17, 2008
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Product Description
The perfect title for the perfect beach read from the New York Times bestselling Author
Jane Green is one of the preeminent authors of womens fiction today, and with each new novel, her audience grows. Greens avid and loyal fans follow her because she writes about the true-to-life dilemmas of womenand The Beach House will not disappoint.
Known in Nantucket as the crazy woman who lives in the rambling house atop the bluff, Nan doesnt 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 shouldnt 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.
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 Loved this book and I don't read Chick-lit (THANKS for putting it on the KINDLE!) June 30, 2008
36 out of 49 found this review helpful
I don't read Chick Lit or romance novels and I usually read non fiction. So this was a total departure for me... but I read a review for this recently and thought I wanted a light read and the Kindle price was right on.
I have a Kindle (OMG if you don't have one RUN to the home page and order it!!!).. This edition came out a few days after the publication..
I loved the story and I couldnt wait to get back to it.. I was up way too late finishing it in one day.. its not a tough read but you fall in love with these people.. its a great beach read but its not "dumbed" down as so many books in this type of genre are so I am off to find more Jane Green, this is the first one of hers I have read and I really really enjoyed it! And again thanks for the Kindle Edition. I wouldnt have considered buying this before.. Kindle changed that, and introduced me to new authors such as this one.
A Tidy Little Story August 5, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
The setting is Nantucket in summer. The characters are well drawn and the set up of their individual stories takes up the first half of the book. In the second half they come together in unpredictable ways, with everything playing out full circle.
Nan, the widowed white-haired, bicycle-riding matriarch is the center of the story and her grand hilltop estate with ocean views (Windermere) is the "beach house" to which the title refers. It's a dramatic backdrop to a variety of dramatic stories within this family-oriented character study. Other main characters include Nan's son, Michael, a jewelry designer who seems to have a fear of commitment. Then there's Daniel, who struggles to find his true self; Daniel's wife Bee and their two little girls; Daff, facing betrayal and divorce, and her ornery teenage daughter, along with her dad, Richard, and his new girlfriend. Relationships are all over the place, but ultimately you discover how they're tied together as the story explores many different aspects of love and commitment.
This book is a very quick read, left me satisfied and definitely made me want to plan a summer vacation in Nantucket.
Michele Cozzens is the author of It's Not Your Mother's Bridge Club
Summer fun June 23, 2008
18 out of 21 found this review helpful
Grab your beach chair and prepare to be entertained! Reading Jane Green's latest novel brought back wonderful memories of a Nantucket summer vacation spent in our own beach cottage. While reading this story I was easily absoarbed into the world of Ms. Green's characters and the wisdom of a wonderful woman I wish I would be lucky enough to rent a room from. I recommend you tell the kids to order pizza and spend a few hours with your nose stuck in this book.
Another bestseller for Jane Green June 20, 2008
12 out of 15 found this review helpful
Jane Green has presented her legion of fans with another hit. Green has an art for bringing her characters to life and a gift of storytelling. Having read every single one of Green's novels, I have found The Beach House to be just as enjoyable and entertaining.
I am confidant that The Beach House will prove to be another bestseller for Jane Green. Keep them coming and we'll keep on reading.
Hildee Weiss
www.myspace.com/triangelmom
Compulsively readable July 21, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Suzanne Powell ( Nan to her friends) knows she is Siansconset's resident eccentric. Content to ride her bike everywhere, snip flowers from her neighbor's gardens, swim nude in their pools, cull a few plants from their gardens to replant into her own, and thumb her nose at the conventional Nantucket life. Nan lives on the bluff in Windermere, the Powell family home. Built in the 1920's the old house has seen better times and Nan is alone except for her housekeeper, Sarah. Her son, Michael has left Nantucket to work as a jeweler in New York and seldom returns. Developers are casting covetous glances at Windermere and Nan refuses to relinquish the home she shared with her late husband, Evan. Evan's suicide when Michael was six left Nan reeling and Windermere is the only part of Evan's legacy not relinquished to satisfy his debts. Thirty years later, her finances ebbing, Nan decides to open the grand old home to summer renters.
Daniel comes to Nantucket for some space from a marriage he cannot make right. Soon after, Daff arrives after allowing her teen-age daughter Jess to move in with Richard, her ex-husband and his new girlfriend. Michael arrives unexpectedly, seeking refuge from a love affair gone wrong. Nan is energized by the additions and Windermere begins to fill with the sounds of life. The magic of a Nantucket summer seems to be healing past wounds and opening up new possibilities. The newly forged friendships are turned upside down when an unexpected visitor arrives and Windermere's residents must confront their pasts. Once again, Jane Green has crafted a compulsively readable book which was hard to put down.
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