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Everlasting

by Nancy Thayer

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Fiction. Literature. Romance. HTML:From New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer comes a dazzling portrait of a young woman whose passion and ambition drive her to a fateful choice. Now available for the first time as an eBook!
 
Catherine Eliot was born to a world of privilege and prestige, with a family whose last name and vast fortune provide her with access to almost anything she could wish for. But what Catherine craves most is independence. So while her friends settle into comfortable lives financed by doting parents and indulgent husbands, she moves to New York City, determined to make it on her own. Taking a demanding job in a bustling flower shop, she works hard and learns the trade until, with courage and determination, she??s able to open Blooms, an exclusive floral boutique on the fashionable Upper East Side.
 
Jetting from Manhattan??s flower district to elegant East Hampton, from England??s gorgeous countryside to Holland??s world-famous flower auctions, Catherine is at the height of her career. But before she can bask in her hard-won success, her brother??s desperate actions endanger her business. Meanwhile, while romanced by a charming Boston lawyer who whisks her off to Paris, Catherine also finds herself powerfully drawn to a secretive foreigner who takes her breath away. The question remains whether Catherine can confront her own demons to achieve the life she??s long desired.
 
Includes a captivating preview of Nancy Thayer??s upcoming novel Nantucket Sisters!
 
Praise for the novels of Nancy Thayer
 
??The queen of beach books.???The Star-Ledger
 
??Thayer has a deep and masterly understanding of love and friendship, of where the two complement and where they collide.???Elin Hilderbrand
 
??Thayer??s gift for reaching the emotional core of her characters [is] captivating.???Houston Chronicle
 
??One of my favorite writers.???Susan Wiggs
 
??Thayer portrays beautifully the small moments, inside stories and shared histories that build families.???The Miami Herald
 
??Thayer??s sense of place is powerful, and her words are hung together
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Nice to see that Nancy can write a different kind of book--about a young woman who is sexy, ambitious, and is making it on her own back in the 60s when women still did not work full time. I really enjoyed the drama and pathos of this book. ( )
  lhaines56 | May 10, 2019 |
Everlasting by Nancy Thayer
Have enjoyed the author's other books.
Katherine Elliott, it's Christmas and she wants to leave. She's had enough of the girls boarding school and wants to venture out.
She comes to New York and finds a job working at a flower shop. She travels to Paris and has a fling but returns back to her job in NY, not hearing from kit.
Her father drops a bomb on her and she strives to help them all out financially.
Story also follows her parents and her siblings along with her own career. So many struggles and heart ache, betrayal as each wants something more from her.
Loved hearing about all the flower arranging...
I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device). ( )
  jbarr5 | Feb 11, 2016 |
A flower shop owner finds treacher & romance. ( )
  LesaHolstine | Jul 18, 2007 |
Thayer's ( Stepping ) eighth novel is a disappointment, a lightweight, predictable fairy tale of a young woman's success in business and in love. When 17-year-old Catherine Eliot decides not to attend college, her cruel, cold, socialite parents cut her off completely. With the support of her grandmother Kathryn, whose mantra is "It will come to you," Catherine stumbles into a job at a small New York City florist's shop--inadvertently discovering her true vocation. After three years, she blackmails an old pal of her dad's for enough money to buy the business. Her daring new ideas, sense of elegance, and social connections make Blooms the hottest floral emporium in Manhattan. Catherine and Harvard law student Kit Bemish fall in love; he's already engaged, though, and obeys his parents' command to marry. Work and an affair with her Blooms partner distract Catherine until Kit reappears in her life. Blooms expands as Catherine and Kit produce two perfect children and see her younger siblings safely into adulthood. Fairy grandmother Kathryn leaves her estate, Everly, and its extensive gardens to Catherine. With handsome knight Kit and her beauty, brains and independent spirit, it's never in doubt that this superficial (though likable) heroine will live happily ever after. Literary Guild dual main selection.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
  yvonnefoong | Jul 21, 2006 |
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Christmas Night 1960

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Fiction. Literature. Romance. HTML:From New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer comes a dazzling portrait of a young woman whose passion and ambition drive her to a fateful choice. Now available for the first time as an eBook!
 
Catherine Eliot was born to a world of privilege and prestige, with a family whose last name and vast fortune provide her with access to almost anything she could wish for. But what Catherine craves most is independence. So while her friends settle into comfortable lives financed by doting parents and indulgent husbands, she moves to New York City, determined to make it on her own. Taking a demanding job in a bustling flower shop, she works hard and learns the trade until, with courage and determination, she??s able to open Blooms, an exclusive floral boutique on the fashionable Upper East Side.
 
Jetting from Manhattan??s flower district to elegant East Hampton, from England??s gorgeous countryside to Holland??s world-famous flower auctions, Catherine is at the height of her career. But before she can bask in her hard-won success, her brother??s desperate actions endanger her business. Meanwhile, while romanced by a charming Boston lawyer who whisks her off to Paris, Catherine also finds herself powerfully drawn to a secretive foreigner who takes her breath away. The question remains whether Catherine can confront her own demons to achieve the life she??s long desired.
 
Includes a captivating preview of Nancy Thayer??s upcoming novel Nantucket Sisters!
 
Praise for the novels of Nancy Thayer
 
??The queen of beach books.???The Star-Ledger
 
??Thayer has a deep and masterly understanding of love and friendship, of where the two complement and where they collide.???Elin Hilderbrand
 
??Thayer??s gift for reaching the emotional core of her characters [is] captivating.???Houston Chronicle
 
??One of my favorite writers.???Susan Wiggs
 
??Thayer portrays beautifully the small moments, inside stories and shared histories that build families.???The Miami Herald
 
??Thayer??s sense of place is powerful, and her words are hung together

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