"The Wests and the Cunninghams have summered together in Nantucket for many years, but when Lucy West's son becomes gravely ill, the secrets and illicit activities shared between the two couples in earlier, wilder times begin to surface."@en
"-- -- --Elin Hilderbrand "Thayer's gift for reaching the emotional core of her characters (is) captivating. -- "--The Miami Herald "Thayer's sense of place is powerful, and her words are hung together the way my grandmother used to tat lace."--Dorothea Benton Frank."@en
"A respectable woman longing to be a bad girl-- just once--gets her wish and pays for it when she bears a child with cystic fibrosis. It is a genetic disease and she must name the father, thereby revealing that she slept with the husband of a close friend. By the author of An Act of Love."@en
"A respectable woman longing to be a bad girl-- just once--gets her wish and pays for it when she bears a child with cystic fibrosis. It is a genetic disease and she must name the father, thereby revealing that she slept with the husband of a close friend. By the author of An Act of Love."