A Very Nantucket Christmas
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- First published
- 2013
- Pages
- 297
About this book
A Very Nantucket Christmas is one of Nancy Thayer's holiday novels set on the Massachusetts island that has been her literary home for decades. Thayer has written more than thirty novels with Nantucket as their primary setting, and her readers come back to her for the consistent atmosphere of the place and for the multigenerational family dramas she handles with practiced skill. The Christmas entries in her catalogue have a particular flavor, combining the year round Nantucket world she has built with the specific traditions and emotional weight of the holiday season on the island.
The novel follows several connected Nantucket families through the holiday season, with the kinds of complications Thayer's readers expect. New romances. Old tensions. Children returning home with surprises. Long carried family secrets that the proximity of holiday gatherings finally brings to the surface. Thayer handles the multigenerational structure with care, giving each character a clear voice and resisting the temptation to let any one storyline crowd out the others.
What distinguishes Thayer from a lot of writers in her general territory is the affection she clearly feels for her setting. The Nantucket of her novels is a real place rendered with specific detail, not just a postcard backdrop. The off season character of the island, very different from the summer crowd that fills her seasonal novels, gives the Christmas books their particular quality. The gray days, the empty beaches, the small year round community that knows each other deeply, all of it grounds the romance and family drama in a place that feels lived in.
For longtime Nancy Thayer fans, A Very Nantucket Christmas is a comfortable holiday read that delivers the kind of warm island fiction her readers expect. For new readers, the novel is a fair introduction to her style and a good entry point into her wider Nantucket catalogue. Readers who enjoy Elin Hilderbrand's Nantucket novels will find similar pleasure here, though Thayer's voice is slightly quieter than Hilderbrand's high gloss summer fiction.
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Book facts
- Author
- Nancy Thayer
- First published
- 2013
- Reading time
- About 6 hours
- Pages
- 297
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Contemporary Romance
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, MOBI, Read online