Surfside Sisters

Surfside Sisters is one of Nancy Thayer’s Nantucket novels, focused on the long friendship between two women whose lives have been shaped by the Nantucket setting and by the various romantic and family complications that the years have brought into their relationship. The surfside of the title points to a particular Nantucket beach community that the central characters have been associated with across their lives.

Thayer’s friendship novels rely on the kind of careful character work that her best fiction shows, with the two central friends developing across the page count in ways that earn the eventual emotional payoff. The Nantucket setting is rendered with the affection that her readers come to her for.

For longtime Nancy Thayer fans, Surfside Sisters is a satisfying entry. For new readers, the novel is a fair introduction to her work.