The Guest Cottage

Travel Guide

An island can be one of two things – the place to escape to for  bit of piece and quiet or a small, remote and insular looking location where you die for some company, civilization and involvement in the real world again.

For Wendy and her family both are true as not long after she arrives on the island hoping for a break, she and her  daughters are forced to live with strangers with problems of their own. But the setting is rather beautiful –

“The Nantucket house was three stories high, with a two storey wing off each end. The house looked British, like something out of an old black-and-white mystery involving butlers and Bentleys..”

An ancient, thick wisteria vine dripped its violent blooms over the front door

The two families may have their problems but the warren of room inside their house are as ‘warm and welcoming as a fairy-tale’s grandmothers; lap and as rumpled’ so surely there will be some comfort here too?

This beach house gives the people thrown together there, a chance to see each other in a different light and to learn to appreciate one another.  Feelings of former partners are seen in a new settings and  the changed routine provides new hope to them all indifferent ways.

With the sand in your toes, the sea gulls flying over head and miles away from the stresses and strains of city life, Nantucket island can be both paradise and reality and that’s no bad thing.