Number one best-seller Jane Green
- author of Straight Talking & Mr. Maybe
- tells a heart-warming story of life family & relationships in the captivating novel The Beach House. Nan a widow whose family has flown the nest is an independent free-spirited woman who couldn't care less what people think about her living alone in her beloved beach house. But when she discovers that money is running out & she might lose her home she knows it's time for a drastic change. Nan decides to rent out rooms for the summer & people start moving into the house filling it with noise laughter & tears. Among them is Daniel a recently divorced father who's struggling to find out who he really is & Daff the single mother of a truculent teenager who blames her mother unreservedly for her parents' divorce. As the house comes to life again Nan finds her family growing. Her son comes home for the summer & an unexpected visitor turns up turning all their lives upside down... Compelling absorbing & poignant The Beach House is a story of friendship love & those moments that can change your life. Best selling author Jane Green has captured the imaginations of readers in the UK & the US with novels that are perfect beach reads. Other titles also published by Penguin include The Love Verb (published as Promises to Keep in the USA) The Other Woman The Patchwork Marriage (Another Piece of My Heart) Jemima J. Babyville Girl Friday (Dune Road) Life Swap (Swapping Lives) Spellbound (To Have & to Hold) Second Chance & Bookends.