Thayer, a best-selling author with 13 previous novels, went to her editor and proposed the concept. Gradually, she developed the idea of a series called “The Hot Flash Club,” with a story line that followed four women of a certain age, who help each other cope with divorce, adult children, aging parents and other challenges. This book was suggested as the first book to read. Most of our support for each other came through our ability to laugh together.” I bought this book because a group of us decided to begin a book club. “We’d go for long walks and talk about the physical changes we were seeing in our bodies. “I was having hot flashes, as were my friends,” says Thayer. Her “Hot Flash Club” novels, which pull no punches on the good, the bad and the ugly of middle age - spreading hips, widening waistlines, cellulite, killer personal heat waves and all - were inspired by her own experiences and those of her closest confidants. As far as the 62-year-old Nantucket writer is concerned, menopause isn’t the “silent passage” anymore - and she has written a series of books to prove it. The hot-flash crowd finally gets some cold literary comfort.Ĭall Nancy Thayer “the hot flash queen.” She doesn’t mind a bit.
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