Nancy Thayer's "Summer Light on Nantucket"

Nancy Thayer is the author of 35 novels, including Summer Love, Family Reunion, A Nantucket Christmas, and The Hot Flash Club. Her books are about families, friendship, and the beautiful island of Nantucket where she’s lived for 39 years with her husband Charley Walters and their spoiled cat Callie. Sometimes they invite their thousands of grandchildren to visit. She loves libraries, bookstores, and zoom parties.

Thayer's novels have appeared on the New York Times best-seller lists, in Redbook, Good Housekeeping, and Cosmo UK, and are translated into many languages.

Her novel Let It Snow was made into a Hallmark Christmas movie entitled Nantucket Noel in 2021.

A Fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in 1983, she was awarded the RT 2015 Career Achievement Award for Mainstream Fiction.

Here Thayer dreamcasts an adaptation of her new novel, Summer Light on Nantucket:

Blythe Benedict, 45, is on Nantucket with her four children, her ex-mother-in-law, her ex-husband, his new girlfriend, and two new really attractive boyfriends.

Kate Hudson would be perfect to play Blythe. She’s the same age, immediately likeable, and she loves to have fun.

Colin Farrell would be her Irish boyfriend, and James Norton would be her American boyfriend even though he isn’t American or even forty yet, because, well, look at the man.

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--Marshal Zeringue