Hot Flash Holidays: A Novel

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The intrepid women of The Hot Flash Club are back for the holidays, soothing jingled nerves and stressed shoppers in their exclusive spa and celebrating the joys of the season. In her witty and delightfully wisecracking prose, Nancy Thayer tells a heartwarming tale packed with fun, secrets, romance-and an ample dose of good cheer. When the Hot Flash friends gather at the spa to trim the Christmas tree, they share steaming mugs of hot chocolate, a few laughs, and a vow to make this holiday one to remember. And it is-but not in the cheerful, ho-ho-ho way they expected. Instead, Christmas brings family conflicts, household accidents, plane delays-and that's just the beginning. After a hazardous holiday season, the women make resolutions that they intend to keep . . . in a perfect world. But life-and their friends and relatives-cause complications. Shirley lends financial support to her boyfriend's schemes, which infuriates Alice, whose own son commits an act she's not sure she can accept. Marilyn travels to Scotland and falls in love, but her octogenarian mother needs her at home. And when Polly and Faye find themselves pitted against each other by a younger woman, an they overcome this clash to make a new, entrepreneurial dream come true Then real disaster strikes, bringing new challenges and surprising revelations. Just as every month of the year throws new problems at us all, so too does the end of the year give us the chance to reunite and put these problems into their proper perspective. And when the Hot Flash Five get together for the holidays, we should expect nothing less than the unexpected.

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Praise for Nancy Thayer

The Hot Flash Club

Frank and entertaining.
Janet Maslin, The New York Times

Warm, lively, wise, and as much fun as a girls night out.
Kristin Hannah, author of Comfort & Joy

Nancy Thayers gift for reaching the emotional core of her characters [is] captivating.
Houston Chronicle

The Hot Flash Club Strikes Again

Thayer has the knack of creating likable characters who grapple with problems that will strike a chord with many readers.
The Boston Globe

Thayers writing often reminds me of Elizabeth Berg, Jeanne Ray, and Anne Tyler.
Womens Lifestyle

Author Bio

Nancy Thayer is the New York Times bestselling author of The Island House, The Guest Cottage, An Island Christmas, Nantucket Sisters, A Nantucket Christmas, Island Girls, Summer Breeze, Heat Wave, Beachcombers, Summer House, Moon Shell Beach, and the Hot Flash Club novels. She lives on Nantucket.