Summer We Started Over

Eddie Grant is content with her life as personal assistant to Dinah Lavender, one of the best-known romance authors in the business. But watching someone else's fame and glamour is less fulfilling than it once seemed. When her younger sister Barrett opens a gift shop on Memorial Day weekend and could use help, Eddie has the perfect excuse for a vacation.

Going home to Nantucket means facing the family's painful past. After the death of Eddie and Barrett's brother, their mother left and their father impulsively bought a small farm. Eddie stayed there only a year before the family's grief threatened to swallow her too, and she has lived in Manhattan ever since.

Back on the island, she meets everything she left behind. Her father has grown more eccentric, and his house is bursting with books. Barrett resents Eddie for escaping. And an old love connection remains as undeniable and complicated as ever.

The sisters turn their father's abandoned barn into a used bookstore, a way to manage his hoarding. Along the way they uncover a long-buried family secret that will change all of them.

Nancy Thayer's novel is a story about family, courage and the resilience of young women, set on Nantucket.