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She's known as the crazy woman who lives in the big old rambling house on the top of a bluff in Nantucket, but at sixty-five-years old, Nan doesn't care what people think. If her neighbours are away, why shouldn't she skinny dip in their swimming pools? Her husband died twenty years ago, her beauty has faded, her family flown, and when she discovers that the money she thought would last forever is running out and she may lose her beloved house, she knows she has to make drastic changes. Slowly people start moving in to the house, filling it with noise again, with laughter, and with tears. There is Daniel, recently divorced and a father of two girls, who is struggling to find out who he really is, and Daff, the single mother of a truculent teenager who blames her unreservedly for the divorce. As the house comes alive again, Nan finds her family extending. Her son comes home for the summer, and then an unexpected visitor throws all their lives upside down.
About the Author
Jane Green was a disaster at University, discovered writing soon afterwards, and went on to work as a journalist throughout her twenties, for various national newspapers and magazines in her home town of London. At twenty seven, inspired by Nick Hornby's High Fidelity, she decided to give up her job on the Daily Express, and write a real woman's account of what it was like being single in the city.
Luckily it paid off. Three months later she signed her first publishing deal, and Straight Talking, her (allegedly) largely-autobiographical first novel, became a huge bestseller and together with Bridget Jones's Diary launched the phenomenon that came to be known as 'chick lit'.
Just after the release of Straight Talking, Jane met her American husband, and two years after that they moved across the Atlantic to Connecticut. Four years and four children later (yes, it does include a set of twins), Jane is currently at work on her eighth novel, (despite it being harder and harder to work up the energy and discipline to write...), preparing to go off on tour around the States for the hardback launch of The Other Woman (March 8th), getting the house ready for Bingo, a lurcher (greyhound cross) who's arriving from Florida in two weeks who will hopefully befriend Palmer, the house dog, looking after four children under the age of five, attempting to clean up the garden before Spring, and thinking of what she can possibly do with chicken breasts for supper tonight again.
And you thought you were tired...
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