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The Beach House | 
 enlarge | Author: Jane Green
Publisher: Viking Adult
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 10
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.8 x 2
ISBN: 0670018856
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780670018857
ASIN: 0670018856
Publication Date: June 17, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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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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 Perfect beach reading July 4, 2008
Nan is a feisty and eccentric 65 year old widow, who has lived alone for many years in a large house in Nantucket. Rather than selling her house, she decides to rent out some of the rooms for the summer. The book is about the people who come to live with her, all of whom have their own problems and the way that they all come together. It's a warm hearted and easy book - not one that will stay with you particularly, but a good summer read that hooks you in quickly and keeps moving at a good pace.
I've read a couple of Jane Green's early novels (Babyville and The Other Woman) and enjoyed them. "The Beach House" is quite different. It's still a light and enjoyable read but it's a change in style. Having said that, I enjoyed it just as much: it's just different. Interestingly enough, I read an interview with Jane Green where she commented on the fact that when she wrote her early novels she was in an unhappy marriage and the unhappy protagonists reflected her own state of mind. Now she is in a much more settled place and hence this book about coming home and having peace.
A book from last summer in a similar vein (including the Nantucket setting) is Barefoot by Elin Hilderbrand.
 Amazing! July 3, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Wow this book is amazing!! Jane Green is one of my favorite authors and when I read the back cover of this book, I have to admit, I wasnt sure if I was going to like it. But, it is one of her best books yet! I could not put this book down and it was one of these books that you hate to finish because you are enjoying it so much.
well written character study July 3, 2008
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
Sixty-five years old eccentric widow Nan owns THE BEACH HOUSE on Nantucket Island. Although she knows her neighbors would disapprove, needing money and not caring what anyone else thinks as she is a sexagenarian who buried her husband, the feisty Nan decides to rent rooms during the summer.
Her summer renters come to the island to think and escape. Separated from her husband Richard following his affair, Daff must decide what she wants beyond her two roles of mother to teen Jess and wife or perhaps ex wife. Therapist Dr. Posner helps, some might say hinders, Bee and Daniel to face the inconvenient truth that is destroying their relationship. As he faces middle age, Michael wonders if he will ever find the right woman for him as every female he meets turns out wrong.
THE BEACH HOUSE is a well written character study in which each of the visitors and Nan has issues to confront over the summer. Each of the cast members is fully developed and seems like a real person as they struggle with their respective issues. Although the resolution is too simplistic in such a short time, fans will enjoy the most wonderful summer.
Harriet Klausner
A lovely read. July 3, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Well worth the wait, and a very quick read for me. Good character development and a very clever plot twist or two makes this a smart yet fun book. I think this should be made into a movie...
With Age Comes Wisdom ... July 1, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
and Ms. Green's writing is no exception to this rule. While typically classified as a 'chick lit' author, Jane Green spreads her literary wings with this intricately woven plot.
Nan Powell, a 65-year-old eccentric woman living at her dead husband's family's estate, absolutely adores Windemere, the beautiful Nantucket home. Left with bad debt protected by a good name, Nan has sold everything she has: everything except her beloved Windemere.
Her last hope is to rent out rooms at Windemere and in doing so, she meets and befriends Daniel, a married man who realizes this life is not the one that is most authentic for him, Daff, a newly single mother whose 13-year-old daughter Jess is in the peak of adolescent horror, and Michael, Nan's carefree, forty-something-year-old son, who is fleeing from a disastrous affair with his boss, Jordana.
However, when one final houseguest arrives, all of their worlds will turn upside down.
This pageturner will keep you more than entertained, whether you are vacationing at Nantucker, or your own backyard. Jane Green wins again!
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