Sep 15, 2010
My favorite Jane Green book is The Beach House. I love the main character, feisty widow Nan from Nantucket. I’m sure I like her because she’s sixty-five with a reputation for being eccentric. She cuts flowers from her neighbor’s yard when they’re away. Their pool is “so blue, so inviting, it was practically begging her to strip off and jump in, which of course she did…She dried off naturally, walking naked around the garden popping strawberries and peas into her mouth in their kitchen garden…” The Siasconset villagers think of Nan as the “crazy woman in the big old house on the bluff”.
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