the hot flash club strikes again nancy thayer

The problem? Beth may not survive his loud, affectionate, athletic family - especially when the very beautiful and earthy woman everybody wanted Sonny to marry is still hanging around the family dinner table. Then she meets Sonny, a rugged, sexy carpenter who sweeps her off her feet. Ever the optimist, Polly puts her best foot forward.so why does it end up in her mouth?Ī shy and brilliant professor-to-be, Beth has lived a sheltered life. Then her son marries Amy, a Birkenstocked gal whose organic farm and family ooze a rather creepy serenity.

The Hot Flash Club Strikes Again also introduces four new women, ready for massages and seaweed wraps, each struggling to reconcile her secret dreams, biggest fears, and deepest feelings as topsy-turvy events shake up her life.Īfter 18 years of trying to make peace with her husband’s cold-as-ice mother, Polly vows to be the perfect mother-in-law: loving, accepting, and determined to keep her mouth shut. (Nov.The fabulous women from The Hot Flash Club are back in top form, welcoming the stressed-out and pampering-deprived through their discreet spa doors - as Nancy Thayer returns with a witty, sexy, and heartwarming novel. 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