num_pages: 336
description: Sensible thirty-six-year-old Sophie Anderson has always known what to do. She knows her role in life: supportive wife of a successful architect and calm capable mother of two. But on a warm summer night as the house grows quiet around her and her children fall asleep she wonders whats missing from her life. When her husband echoes that lonely question announcing that hes leaving her for another woman Sophie realizes she has no idea whats next. Impulsively renting a guest cottage on Nantucket from her friend Susie Swenson Sophie rounds up her kids Jonah and Lacey and leaves Boston for a quiet family vacation minus one.Also minus one is Trevor Black a software entrepreneur who has recently lost his wife. Trevor is the last person to imagine himself age thirty and on his own raising a little boy like Leosmart and sweet but grappling constantly with his mothers death growing more and more closed off. Hoping a quiet summer on the Nantucket coast will help him reconnect with Leo Trevor rents a guest house on the beautiful island from his friend Ivan Swenson.Best-laid plans run awry when Sophie and Trevor realize theyve mistakenly rented the same house. Still determined to make this a summer their kids will always remember the two agree to share the Swensons Nantucket house. But as the summer unfolds and the families grow close Sophie and Trevor must ask themselves if the guest cottage is all they want to share.Inspiring and true to life The Guest Cottage is Nancy Thayer at her finest inscribing in graceful knowing prose matters of the heart and the meaning of family.
language: English
title: The Guest Cottage
publisher: Ballantine Books