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    Everlasting: A Novel
    Everlasting: A Novel
    Everlasting: A Novel
    Audiobook13 hours

    Everlasting: A Novel

    Written by Nancy Thayer

    Narrated by Erin Bennett

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    From New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer comes a dazzling portrait of a young woman whose passion and ambition drive her to a fateful choice. Now available for the first time in audio!

    Catherine Eliot was born to a world of privilege and prestige, with a family whose last name and vast fortune provide her with access to almost anything she could wish for. But what Catherine craves most is independence. So while her friends settle into comfortable lives financed by doting parents and indulgent husbands, she moves to New York City, determined to make it on her own. Taking a demanding job in a bustling flower shop, she works hard and learns the trade until, with courage and determination, she’s able to open Blooms, an exclusive floral boutique on the fashionable Upper East Side.

    Jetting from Manhattan’s flower district to elegant East Hampton, from England’s gorgeous countryside to Holland’s world-famous flower auctions, Catherine is at the height of her career. But before she can bask in her hard-won success, her brother’s desperate actions endanger her business. Meanwhile, while romanced by a charming Boston lawyer who whisks her off to Paris, Catherine also finds herself powerfully drawn to a secretive foreigner who takes her breath away. The question remains whether Catherine can confront her own demons to achieve the life she’s long desired.

    Praise for the novels of Nancy Thayer

    “The queen of beach books.”—The Star-Ledger

    “Thayer has a deep and masterly understanding of love and friendship, of where the two complement and where they collide.”—Elin Hilderbrand

    “Thayer’s gift for reaching the emotional core of her characters [is] captivating.”—Houston Chronicle

    “One of my favorite writers.”—Susan Wiggs

    “Thayer portrays beautifully the small moments, inside stories and shared histories that build families.”—The Miami Herald

    “Thayer’s sense of place is powerful, and her words are hung together the way my grandmother used to tat lace.”—Dorothea Benton Frank

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateAug 28, 2018
    ISBN9781978617476
    Everlasting: A Novel
    Author

    Nancy Thayer

    Nancy Thayer is the New York Times bestselling author of more than thirty novels, including Girls of Summer, Let It Snow, Surfside Sisters, A Nantucket Wedding, Secrets in Summer, The Island House, The Guest Cottage, An Island Christmas, Nantucket Sisters, and Island Girls. Born in Kansas, Thayer has been a resident of Nantucket for thirty-five years, where she currently lives with her husband, Charley, and a precocious rescue cat named Callie.

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    • 4/5
      Everlasting by Nancy ThayerHave enjoyed the author's other books.Katherine Elliott, it's Christmas and she wants to leave. She's had enough of the girls boarding school and wants to venture out.She comes to New York and finds a job working at a flower shop. She travels to Paris and has a fling but returns back to her job in NY, not hearing from kit.Her father drops a bomb on her and she strives to help them all out financially.Story also follows her parents and her siblings along with her own career. So many struggles and heart ache, betrayal as each wants something more from her.Loved hearing about all the flower arranging...I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).

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    • 2/5
      Took me forever to finish this book. The heroine was selfish, self absorbed and self absorbed. The other characters weren’t any better.
    • 4/5
      Nice to see that Nancy can write a different kind of book--about a young woman who is sexy, ambitious, and is making it on her own back in the 60s when women still did not work full time. I really enjoyed the drama and pathos of this book.