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Great Novel For Any Woman Who Has Felt Overwhelmed By Life, July 7, 2001
This review is from: Three Women At The Water's Edge (Mass Market Paperback)
Nancy Thayer brings to life three women, each at an important turning point in her life. Each faces a life-changing situation that will cause her to utilize her strongest survival skills as she seeks to find happiness and satisfaction amongst the debris.
At the heart of this story is twenty-nine year old Daisy, the devoted mother of two young children and pregnant with her third child. She devotes her days to making her young children happy, but her husband finds her growing frumpy and desserts her for a younger, professional woman unencumbered by diapers, formulas, and Captain Kangaroo. Daisy's daily travails as she struggles with rejection, single-parenthood, and reduced income are brutally true-to-life for anyone who has been there, done that. And her troubles, like a stone thrown into a river, cause ripples in the lives of her mother and her younger sister.
Her mother, Margaret, is approaching 50 and wants to enjoy the freedom of an empty nest. After a lifetime of being the perfect cookie-baking, nose-wiping mother, she walks out of her seemingly-happy marriage to seek her own identity. She is eager to grasp glamour and the pleasures of a self-centered life as opposed to being everyone's shoulder to cry on as she has always been.
Daisy's younger sister, twenty-four year old Dale, is feeling the joy of first love with its intense longing and lust accompanied by her deep-seated fear of what happens when love ends.
Each woman must take the plunge into unchartered waters and find a way to live that will be rewarding. Nancy Thayer writes with such frankness and honesty that you will stand up and cheer at some parts and be ready to throw dishes at the wall in other parts. But most of all, you will be touched by three women who take life as it comes with its unexpected slaps in the face and its unasked for detours. Will they succeed? Watch them as they live each mind-boggling day and decide individually what makes a life really worth living.
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
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I absolutely love this book!, July 20, 1999
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This review is from: Three Women At The Water's Edge (Mass Market Paperback)
I just wanted to write in and say that I bought this book years ago and loved it and I loaned it to my sister. I never got it back. I bought another copy of the book and I eventually loaned it to a friend. She "conveniently" lost it too. I think she really just loved it and didn't want to part with it, just like my sister. I am now buying my third copy because I can't bear to be without it either.
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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
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Three Women at the Water's Edge, February 9, 2000
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I read Three Women at the Water's Edge for the first time in my 30's, and have read it many times since. At 53, I have just finished reading it again. Over the years I've been able to identify with Dale, Daisy, and now Margaret. Nancy Thayer has been able to capture the intensity of women's feelings and emotions at three different life stages with an accuracy that is truly incredible. Her descriptions of the sensual pleasures in a woman's life are perfect, from the overwhelming intensity of first love, to the feel and smell of holding a newborn baby, to the calm and inner peace of a woman sitting alone in front of the fireplace in the first home she's ever owned by herself. I've read every book Nancy Thayer has written, and I've loved them all, but this one is the masterpiece. Every woman should have the experience of reading this book.
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