Doreen Burliss, author of  We'll Always Have Nantucket, That Nantucket Summer, and Fogged In, is a former lifestyle columnist and news correspondent, with an irrepressible eye for photography even with the cheapest lens in the room.

 

She believes in giving more than you get, in the enormous vitality of all living things, and that there's a song for every mood. She loves kids, their singular brilliance, curiosity and trust, and can hardly bear that her own three have suddenly grown up and away. 

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The recent and unexpected loss of her husband, Billy, of  36 years, has been an unimaginable loss that has changed the shape of her life. Their family summer vacation on Nantucket will remain etched in gold on the calendar, the way Billy would have wanted it to.

 

Blame it on Nantucket is her fourth novel.