Three Women at the Water's Edge: A Novel
Written by Nancy Thayer
Narrated by Emily Sutton-Smith
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Now available for the first time in audio, this classic novel by New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer deftly and movingly explores the ebb and flow of love, fulfillment, and change for a mother and her two grown daughters.
Margaret Wallace is a woman transformed. After thirty years of marriage and living in a small Iowa town, Margaret has divorced and relocated to Vancouver. While once she was the quintessential housewife and community caregiver, she now relishes the delicious freedom of being beholden to no one but herself. Her days are spent as she chooses, her mind continually occupied and expanding. But her sudden, dramatic change mystifies her two daughters, who need her now more than ever.
Margaret’s elder daughter, Daisy, with two kids and another on the way, is content to be absorbed in the daily domestic tasks and maternal love that her children need. So when her husband demands a divorce, Daisy is devastated and adrift, stunned to find herself a single parent. Daisy’s younger sister, Dale, is freshly back from Europe, living and teaching in coastal Maine. She has suddenly, passionately fallen in love—but is terrified that the budding romance could end just as suddenly as her mother’s and sister’s have. As these three women face dramatic changes, their own relationships with each other will be challenged and reborn as they navigate uncharted waters.
Nancy Thayer
Nancy Thayer is the New York Times bestselling author of more than thirty novels, including Girls of Summer, Let It Snow, Surfside Sisters, A Nantucket Wedding, Secrets in Summer, The Island House, The Guest Cottage, An Island Christmas, Nantucket Sisters, and Island Girls. Born in Kansas, Thayer has been a resident of Nantucket for thirty-five years, where she currently lives with her husband, Charley, and a precocious rescue cat named Callie.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Nancy Thayer brings to life three women, each at an important turning point in her life. At the heart of this story is twenty-nine year old Daisy, the devoted mother of two young children and pregnant with her third child. Her husband finds her growing frumpy and deserts her for a younger, professional woman. Daisy's daily travails as she struggles with rejection, single-parenthood, and reduced income are brutally true-to-life for anyone who has been there.Her troubles cause ripples in the lives of her mother and her younger sister.Her mother, Margaret, is approaching 50 and wants to enjoy the freedom of an empty nest. After a lifetime of being the perfect wife and mother, she walks out of her seemingly-happy marriage to seek her own identity. She's preserving the self she has discovered in the year since her divorce by moving to Canada. She embodies the joy and freedom of being one's own self, not responsible to any one else. Daisy's younger sister, twenty-four year old Dale, is in the midst of the passionate throes of true love and at the same time, she's afraid to make a commitment to her lover, Hank, because she's afraid she's doomed to repeat her mother and sister's mistake. Then she realizes that letting go of her fear and stepping through the changes in life really enhances her love.Each woman must take the plunge into unchartered waters and find a way to live that will be rewarding. They must live each mind-boggling day and decide individually what makes a life really worth living. Nancy Thayer writes with such frankness and honesty that you will be touched by three women who take life as it comes with its unexpected slaps in the face and its unasked for detours