Thank you NetGalley for allowing me the opportunity to read the great Arc. Nancy Thayer really knows how to pull you in and not let you go until the end. This was a heart wrenching story about the losses a family goes through and hoe they deal with those issues. I definitely recommend this emotional story but with a box of Kleenexes handy.

Loved this book! While keeping within her usual style I thought Thayer did a really great job in bringing together new and different characters. Dinah was great!

In life, everyone has to go off on their own and do their own thing. Learn who they are.
For the very lucky, they find that life is best surrounded by friends and family.
Tragedy, parental abandonment, sisterly love, second chance love. This book has it all! My library patrons will be lining up to read this and I cannot wait to recommend it!

Finding life after loss is difficult, Eddie came back to Nantucket after living in New York as a personal assistant to Dinah Lavender, a famous romance author, to help her sister, Barrett, open her gift shop on Memorial weekend. Things change for many people, here that summer, as they learn things about themselves, about moving on, and can see the person they are becoming. Sometimes, seeing things with a different perspective, can change the way you thought they were.
The summer started out, with the feelings of the past, but as they moved on, and began to change, they saw the people that they each became, and this was the summer they all started over, and it is a journey worth discovering.
I received an ARC from Ballantine Books through NetGalley.

I enjoy Nancy Thayer books. This is a great book set in Nantucket Island
Eddie moved to New York to be assistant to romance novelist Dinah Lavender. Her sister Barrett is opening a shop in Nantucket and needs her help. She goes there and they try to clean their father house out of all the books he has hoarded.
This book is about family, bond between sisters, pursuing dreams and of course love

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Every time I read a book by Nancy Thayer I want to stop what I'm doing and head to Nantucket.

This is a great story about family and sticking together through difficult times. I enjoyed watching everyone "start over" during a summer that brought them all back together. The title is very appropriate! I highly recommend this book.

Thank you to NetGalley, Nancy Thayer, and Ballantine Books for the ARC in exchange for my honest opinion. One of my favorites so far this year. Excellent summer read!!

I enjoy reading Nancy Thayer books. I can always count on her for a great beach read. This story is set in Nantucket. It follows sisters Eddie and Barrett and their lives during the summer. It’s a heartwarming story about hope, starting over and of course romance. A quick easy beach read. Thank you to NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group-Ballantine for the E-ARC. This is my own opinion.

I love Nancy Thayer books and this did not disappoint! A touching story of the Grant family, sisters and their father still trying to get their lives together. after some tragedies. A beautiful story of family coming together and supporting each other.

Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC

Nancy Thayer’s novels are always comforting and warm and this one was no different. Sisters Eddie and Barrett have dealt with a lot of loss in their lives, including their mother leaving the family. Eddie has a successful career in Manhattan and Barrett is finally realizing her dream of opening a Nantucket shop. Eddie decides to come spend the summer helping her and also reconnecting with their father. Add in a long ago love and you have a wonderful, heartfelt story of sisters, starting over and healing old wounds.

Nancy Thayer does it again. I could not put this book down. There were so many emotions to feel with this book and you couldn’t help rooting that everyone had a happy, fairytale ending. Definitely can’t wait for Nancy’s next book.

I love these books so, so much. Reading one of Nancy Thayer's novels is like getting a big warm hug. This one had a lot on, and without giving anything away, I will tell you that the ending is kind of sad, kind of sweet, and wholly satisfying, just like life. A perfect read for your summer beach bag.
I would recommend this to others.

Thank you to NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group- Ballantine for the ARC!

Eddie lives in New York as assistant to a best selling author. She spends time all over the world and has wonderful possessions. Barrett, her sister, lives in Nantucket with her father. Their mother left them and there is no contact. Eddie returns to Nantucket to help her sister who is opening her gift shop, finally fulfilling her dream. The story is filled with humor, romance and tears. The characters were just terrific and the story flowed beautifully.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advance copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

What a precious story about starting over on Nantucket. From beginning to end I was reading a relaxing novel about William and his two daughters with their move to Nantucket after 2 life changing events. Pick up this book and learn about them starting over and the beautiful descriptions of Nantucket.

I loved this book! It was a book about friendship, family, and love. The Summer We Started Over was a feel good book and I looked forward to reading more every time I picked it up. It was nice to read a book for a change where everyone cared about each other and looked out for one another. Give this book a try. I promise you'll enjoy it.

One of my favorite Nancy Thayer books, The Summer We Started Over is a beautiful story about a family living and dealing with life’s challenges. Eddie’s been working the past two years in New York as a personal assistant to romance novelist Dinah Lavender. She loves her job and working for Dinah, but she really wants to take some time off to return to Nantucket to help her sister, Barrett, open her dream business, Nantucket Blue.

Going back to Nantucket and her father’s small farm means dealing with difficult memories and challenges. Their best friend, Dove, fell on to hard times after a family scandal and disappeared, and their brother Stearns is now gone, too. Eddie and Barrett’s mother left years ago. Their father, William, became reclusive and has been in his study working for years on a book about romance authors. The house is overrun with books that have been collected over the years. Also, Jess is still on Nantucket. Eddie loved him, and still does, but doesn’t feel that she should ever have children, that she could ever be a good mother.

Overwhelmed at times, Eddie is determined to do what she can to help her family. I felt Nantucket’s embrace for Eddie and her family, as they navigated this emotionally challenging Summer.

Thank you, NetGalley, for the chance to read and review this great book!

I have read and enjoyed many of Nancy Thayer's novels and appreciate her no-frills, straightforward storytelling style and multifaceted family-oriented plots.

In The Summer We Started Over, Eddie (nee Edna) takes a break from her job as assistant to a popular romance author to return to her family home on Nantucket. Her sister, Barrett, is about to fulfill her dream of opening a gift shop, but she is still feeling the effects of their brother's death a few years back and their parents' subsequent divorce. Their father is perhaps the most affected by past tragedies, buying and hoarding an inordinate amount of books as research for a nonfiction book he has been struggling to write. And Eddie has abandoned a promising romantic relationship but finds that her attraction to her former lover is still as strong as ever.

I found it refreshing that there are fewer roadblocks for the main characters to overcome than I often find in books in the same genre, with the exception of one particularly fraught and sensitively written plot involving a childhood friend. I particularly enjoyed the depiction of Barrett's store that features all things blue--clothing, art, and more. I warmed to the characters of their father, Eddie's flamboyant author employer, and one of Barrett's two suitors, a humble carpenter who turns out to be so much more. And Eddie herself develops into someone who learns to communicate more effectively and identify what she really wants out of life.

My thanks to Ballantine and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and provide an honest review of this book.

Perfect summer read! Tugs at the heartstrings but not enough to make you cry. Light hearted Nantucket story. Romance and slight family drama. Quick read!

This book is just lovely. Beautifully developed characters and a description of Nantucket that could only come from someone who lives there.

Thanks to #NetGalley and the publisher for access to this book in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you NetGalley for the opportunity to read and give an honest review of this book.

Nancy Thayer knows how to write about family bonds and relationships. Set this on the beautiful island of Nantucket and you have a winner of a book.

The characters are multidimensional. They have faced grief and loss as their brother died in a motorcycle accident and the mother left after half-committing to raising the children to adults in this family.

All in the family are damaged by grief and loss. But, they are not too damaged to venture out and take a chance on new relationships or re-igniting old relationships.

This is a very satisfactory read. The way it is written leaves it open for expansion into perhaps a series as we could look forward to where father, William, and his two daughters; Eddie and Barrett go in their choices of partners and careers.

The Summer We Started Over is a very well written book. I enjoyed the plot and character dynamics. Loved the Nantucket setting. I recommend this book. My thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for my advance ebook. This is my unbiased.review.