the hot flash club strikes again nancy thayer

As she recalled the exciting and romantic moments of her life, she decided to write a novel loosely based on her experiences. When she was twenty, she ran away from home to marry her psychology professor. While browsing through her own diaries, she realized that her life story could be a novel. Nancy Thayer was interested in writing about lives of ordinary women. She credits this exposure to different cultures as inspiring her in various ways and exerting a strong influence on her books.

She has lived in Amsterdam, Paris, and Helsinki. She taught English at various colleges before having children and beginning her writing career. Thayer earned a BA and MA in English literature from the University of Missouri at Kansas City. Her daughter has followed in her footsteps, also becoming a successful author. She has two children, Joshua Thayer and Samantha Wilde. She lives in Massachusetts with her second husband, Charley Walters. She was born in Emporia, Kansas, in 1943. (Nov.Nancy Thayer is a bestselling author of more than 30 novels.

Cholesterol-laden binges make for sluggish prose, hot flash jokes pall and contrived scenes spill over with sentiment-yet who could fail to root for the five as they face aging with honesty, determination and a lot of help from their friends? Agent, Meg Ruley. Thayer creates sympathetic sexagenarians with adoring (if sometimes impotent) lovers, untapped talents and visions of future happiness. More holiday fiascoes follow, from New Year's through Thanksgiving to another Christmas.

Then sweet-tempered Polly goes home to cook for her vegetarian daughter-in-law and nearly burns down the house artistic Faye breaks her ankle rushing to pick her granddaughter up at the airport practical businesswoman Alice finds her family expanding in spite of her misgivings paleobiologist Marilyn struggles with caring for her elderly mother and Shirley gives her young boyfriend money to self-publish his novel in the erroneous belief that he'll reciprocate with an engagement ring. Snowflakes fall and Christmas carols play as the friends decorate the tree. Their would-be picture-perfect holiday season starts out at Shirley's Haven, a thriving spa serving mature New England women. Hot Flash buddies Faye, Alice, Marilyn, Shirley and newcomer Polly beat the postmenopausal blues by chattering, complaining, shopping, eating and laughing their way together through the series' third installment (after The Hot Flash Club Strikes Again

The hot flash club strikes again nancy thayer