“To say they weren’t interested is an understatement,” says Thayer. 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 of growing older. Most of our support for each other came through our ability to laugh together.” “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. Call Nancy Thayer “the hot flash queen.” She doesn’t mind a bit.
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