Search - Three Women at the Water's Edge (Three Women at the Water's Edge)

One of Nancy Thayer's best. I read it several years ago and had a hard time finding it again. I think that it is out of print. The novel revolves around changes that a mother and her two grown daughters encounter in relationships and choices. The women each live at a water's edge--the coast of Maine, a lakeshore in Milwaukee, and the Canadian Pacific coast. Margaret, the mother, has been a doctor's wife who longs for her own identity and artistic freedom now that her girls are grown. Her daughter Daisy turns desperately to her mother as her life seems to be falling apart. Daisy is pregnant with her third child. and her cozy sloppy, domestic world is being ripped apart by her selfish huband's elopement with a young journalist. The second daughter, Dale is a teacher, who finds love on the east coast. The novel is warm, well written, and the characters are fully developed. I loved the book.