When you read a book with three main characters, you can't help but be interested in one woman's story more than another and that was most definitely the case in Island Girls.
All three girls are thirty-something now and should be able to get along however, it proves to be a life-changing summer for the sisters in Nancy Thayer's Island Girls. The last daughter, Jenny, whom Rory adopted, lives on Nantucket as a computer specialist and is especially nervous about a summer together with her stepsisters since it's her mother who made it so Arden and Meg couldn't visit their father on Nantucket anymore. Arden's half-sister, Meg, is bookish and teaches at the local community college. Rory's first daughter, Arden, was a bit of a wild child back in the day, but is now a semi-famous local TV show host. The problem is the three sisters don't necessarily get along, thanks to some drama that occurred there as children involving Rory's third wife. He died unexpectedly and in his will he states that he will give his Nantucket home to his three daughters under one condition: they must live there together for one summer. Having all the women from his life under his seaside roof-and overseeing the subsequent drama of that perfect storm-Rory Randall might just be enjoying a hearty laugh from above." Rory Randall is a bit of bit of a womanizer he has married three times and has two daughters from different wives and an adopted daughter. When yet another visitor drops by the house with shocking news, the past comes screaming back with a vengeance. And if that weren’t problematic enough, their mothers descend on the island.
To their surprise, the three young women find their newfound sisterhood easier to trust than the men who show up to complicate their lives. And secretive Jenny, an IT specialist, faces troubling questions about her identity while longing for her sisters’ acceptance. College professor Meg hopes to use her summer to finish a literary biography and avoid an amorous colleague. Arden, a successful television host in Boston, hasn’t been back to the island since her teenage years, when accusations of serious misbehavior led to her banishment. Relations among the three sisters are sour thanks to long-festering jealousies, resentments, and misunderstandings. Goodreads says, " Charming ladies’ man Rory Randall dies with one last trick up his sleeve: His will includes a calculating clause mandating a summer-long reunion for his daughters, all from different marriages-that is, if they hope to inherit his posh Nantucket house.
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