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Family Reunion

By: Nancy Thayer
Narrated by: Tanya Eby, Whitney Dykhouse
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Publisher's summary

A longtime Nantucket resident is trying to make the best of a lonely summer. Her spirited granddaughter is learning what she wants out of life. Unforgettable surprises await them both in this magical, multigenerational novel from New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer.

“Readers come to Nancy Thayer novels for the idyllic Nantucket beaches and lifestyle, but they stay for the characters.” --New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe

Eleanor Sunderland loves living on Nantucket, in a gorgeous cliffside home that has been in her family for decades. Yet this year she can’t help but feel a bit isolated, even as the island begins to come alive with summer tourists and travelers. Her best friend has skipped town on a last-minute cruise, leaving Eleanor feeling lonely and nostalgic about her family’s weekend trips to the island, made less frequently in the years since her husband’s passing. Now, her money-driven children contact her mostly to complain and to beg her to sell her beloved home for a steep payout. Hoping to kick the season off on a good note, Eleanor decides her seventieth birthday may be the perfect occasion for a much-needed reunion.

Fresh off the heels of her college graduation, Eleanor’s dear granddaughter, Ari, has just ended an engagement that felt less like true love and more like a chore. She longs for a change of scenery and to venture far from her parents’ snobbish expectations. Taking advantage of her newfound freedom, she heads to Nantucket to clear her head before graduate school, moving in with her grandmother and taking a job at the local beach camp. As she watches Eleanor begin to form a bond with an old acquaintance, Ari herself becomes completely smitten with a friend’s charming older brother. But just as grandmother and granddaughter fall into a carefree routine, a few shocking discoveries throw them off course, and their ideas of the future seem suddenly uncertain.

Eleanor and Ari make exciting connections, old and new, over the course of an unpredictable, life-changing few months, and learn to lean on each other through every new challenge they face in life and love, in this tale filled with Nancy Thayer’s signature Nantucket magic.

©2021 by Nancy Thayer. (P)2021 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

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Great story, terrible narrator!

The story was great but the narrator sounds like a computer! It made the story hard to listen to and follow. She has weird pauses and doesn’t finished sentences to the periods. It’s sound like she ends at the end of a line verses sentence.

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Narrator detracted from story.

Something was just off on narrator’s voice/tone. Seemed somehow bored. Gram was 70, yet voice portrayed as about 90.

Love the author.

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Just a nice easy delightful read

It was nice to just get away from all the turmoil in the news and tune out to fun happy ending book. I though the narration was excellent and i could picture myself at many of the landmarks because the description was perfect.

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best nancy thayer book since A Nantucket wedding

thayer last few books were a DNF for me, so this one was great. I needed to rinse my palat of some of the millennial writing that was praised as great, when it was just bad. if you haven't read Thayer before, her best book and series is the The Hot Flash Club series. I listen to that series again every 3 years or so

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No meat to this book

I enjoy reading Nancy Thayer books, but this one has no meat to it.
I did not like the voices of the narration either.

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Ok story

I like it as lite family drama. Like other listeners, the narrators had some weird effect on their voice. I thought they read very well but there was some robotic sound to it.
I hated the character of the daughter. Selfish to an extreme.
Not much story development around the granddaughter’s romantic relationship- so I didn’t feel drawn to hoping they could work through their situation.
All in all I didn’t love or hate this book.

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GREAT RELAXING STORY FOR SUMMER ENJOYMENT!

Really liked the characters and the viewpoints of the different generations. In my opinion, Eleanor was too generous to her daughter Alicia, who comes across as one entitled lady!! Storyline well set up and nice ending. As always, Tanya and Whitney's character interpretations are spot-on. After listening to lots of murder thrillers, this was a pleasantly relaxing tale to enjoy!

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Excellent story

Enjoyed the story of our on the island as usual. The flavor of beach life is always a pull for me. Can’t wait to read another!

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First narrator talks like Siri

The narrator of the older character almost made me give up on this story in the first 5 minutes. She spoke fast and like a computer. Pausing at odd points in a sentence. I’m glad I stuck with it. The second narrator was better and I enjoyed the story overall.

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Not the best from Nancy Thayer

I’ve always enjoyed Nancy Thayer books but this one was not so great. The dialogue and story was rather unrealistic and the narrators, especially the one one for the adults was terrible.

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