Girls of Summer by Nancy Thayer. "Another frothy, enjoyable beach read by Nantucket-based Thayer, whose novels (along with Elin Hilderbrand's) pretty much epitomize beach reads. Lisa is in her fifties. Her husband left her and abandoned their two children many years earlier, and while she's shied away from romance, she's built a life for herself and her children, Juliet and Theo. Then there's Mack, a widower ten years her junior, whose wife died when their daughter Beth was three. Mack restores old houses, and when he starts working on Lisa's, a spark is ignited. Their budding romance is complicated, however, when their grown kids, all for different reasons, and all with their own romantic challenges, end up back on the island. Quick read. Fun. And if you like it, Thayer has written many more novels for you to enjoy."
