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  • Location: Nantucket Island

Nantucket Sisters

Nantucket Sisters

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2000s: Love and friendship on Nantucket Island

  • ISBN: 978-1472215987
  • Genre: Fiction, Romance

What you need to know before your trail

Maggie and Emily first meet as young girls on a Nantucket beach and immediately become friends. They go on to spend many a happy sumer together and a happy childhood growing up together.

Now in their twenties, Emily is coming to the end of her studies and Maggie wants to be a writer.

Cameron Chadwick bursts onto the scene,and turns both of their lives upside down in many ways. Their friendship is tested and it soon becomes apparent that Cameron is having some effect on the two girls.

Life-altering decisions must be made. There are many tests for the two women which lie ahead..

Travel Guide

Immerse yourself in a carefree and sandy paradise of a Nantucket summer.

This is the place where two girls meet and become fast friends. Two girls from very different backgrounds – Maggie is an islander whilst Emily comes for the summer.

Emily ‘s parents own a large house on one side of the island and like girls everywhere love to play games, make cakes and get up to mischief as only young girls can. they seem to prefer their daughter to play with more high brow friends but Maggie has something about her that makes her a great friend. When her older brother Ben falls in love with her friend, her world seems complete. That’s before Cameron, that old Midwestern charmer comes along of course.

So what do they do on the island? riding bikes, playing in the water, sitting on the beach, oh and the parties. Emily attends the parties whilst Maggie works at them but the island spirit captures them both. Emily –

“She flies along past the old town water pump, past the Sconset Market, past the post office, past Claudette’s box lunches. Down the cobblestoned hill to Codfish park, Here the houses used to be shacks where fishermen spread this nets to dry  so the roofs are low and the walls are ramshackle”

Maggie also has a quality in a character that we love – she’s a total bookworm an imagine reading in a hammock on Nantucket island?

“Sometimes Maggie thinks that books are her best friend, her truest, most reliable friend.”

Better off staying with the books and once men are involved that’s when the two friends go their different ways and their futures look unsure as does their friendship.

Nantucket with its islanders and summer people is where dreams are made and where a childhood friendship flourishes.

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