I’ve always loved reading mysteries, perhaps because nothing is as mysterious to me as my own family. I wrote Family Secrets when my daughter was a teenager and my widowed mother had just remarried and was traveling in Europe. Suddenly the two people I thought I knew the best had secrets from me. Suddenly, I was the responsible, sensible, stay-at-home mother—but the heroine of my novel didn’t have to be. I discovered the diary my mother had written during World War II and was prompted to write this novel about three women–grandmother, mother, and daughter–each at a dramatic turning point in her life.
I’m delighted that my early novels are being made available to my readers as ebooks. My style has changed slightly, as the world has grown faster, but my subject, family life, remains as mysterious and fascinating to me now as it was in these early books: falling in love, raising children, friendships and betrayals and forgiveness.
I hope you enjoy these early novels and discover some new friends there.
Nancy Thayer