A Nantucket Wedding by Nancy Thayer -a Review

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Description:
A few years after losing her beloved husband, Alison is doing something she never thought she would do again: getting married. While placing the finishing touches on her summer nuptials, Alison is anxious to introduce her fiancé, David, to her grown daughters: Felicity, a worried married mother of two, and Jane, also married but focused on her career. The sisters have a somewhat distant relationship and Alison hopes that the wedding and the weeks leading up to the ceremony will give the siblings a chance to reconnect, as well as meet and get to know David’s grown children.

As the summer progresses, it is anything but smooth sailing. Felicity stumbles upon a terrible secret that could shatter her carefully cultivated world. Jane finds herself under the spell of her soon-to-be stepbrother, Ethan, who is as charming as he is mysterious. And even Alison is surprised (and slightly alarmed) by her new blended family. Revelations, intrigue, resentments—as the Big Day approaches, will the promise of bliss be a bust?
      
Against the gorgeous backdrop of the sunswept island of Nantucket, Nancy Thayer sets the stage for a walk down the aisle no one will ever forget

Review:

A Nantucket Wedding by Nancy Thayer is sweet story of two families brought together by a Wedding. Alison, who lost her husband a few years ago, never thought she would find love again; but when she meets David, who also lost his spouse years before, she has another chance at happiness.  When David and Alison decide to get married again, they begin to plan a wedding in Nantucket.  Both have married and grown children, and grandchildren. 

Alison wants her daughters to meet David’s family and try to bring them all together during the summer at David’s Nantucket mansion.   We get to meet Alison’s two daughters, Jane and Felicity, who have been somewhat distant over the years. Felicity has two children, and her husband is a workaholic, who doesn’t have time to spend with them; and Felicity begins to suspect that he is having an affair with his personal assistant.    Jane is happily married, with both being successful lawyers, but she finds herself changing as she grows older.  She and Scott never wanted children, only to work and have fun travelling.  Now Jane finds herself yearning for a child, and her husband is dead set against it.  When the girls arrive in Nantucket, both Felicity and Jane begin to grow closer, and enjoy being able to talk about the things in their lives that is causing trouble.  As the family continues to get together each weekend, prior to the wedding, we learn about each of their own problems. 

Jane and Scott’s marriage slowly begins to fall apart, neither agreeing on the subject of children.  When Jane insists that he go to Nantucket, Scott will refuse, and leave for a hiking trip, with a hint of a possible divorce.    Felicity confronts her husband about his assistant, and though she managed to bring him one weekend to Nantucket, he came away with bitter and jealous thoughts of the rich family Alison is marrying into, and continues his workaholic ways, ignoring the family.  Though this disrupts their lives, Jane and Felicity become so much closer, as sisters should be.

Poppy will confront Alison as interfering with her takeover of her father’s business, but Alison will prove that she has Poppy’s best interest in mind, especially since Poppy is pregnant.  This will somewhat makes their relationship a little better.

As the wedding gets closer, things will happen that will change things for all.  Rather than me spoil it for you, I suggest you read this book.  A Nantucket Wedding was a nice storyline of families, issues and angst dividing them, relationships built, and a wedding that brings them all together.  I did like Alison, David, Jane and Felicity.  I thought at first Ethan was cute, and nice; but by the end he was just a flirt, who had no serious intentions.   Noah was a jerk, Scott was too stubborn, and Poppy wasn’t very likeable.  But overall, I thought this was a very good story that kept my attention throughout.  This makes a perfect read for the beach or when you have a day to yourself just to read.

Reviewed by Barb

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