Kristin Hannah is the award-winning and bestselling author of more than 20 novels. Her newest novel, The Women, about the nurses who served in the Vietnam war, will be released on February 6, 2024.<\/p>\n
The Four Winds was published in February of 2021 and immediately hit #1 on the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Indie bookstore’s bestseller lists. Additionally, it was selected as a book club pick by the both Today Show and The Book Of the Month club, which named it the best book of 2021.<\/p>\n
In 2018, The Great Alone became an instant New York Times #1 bestseller and was named the Best Historical Novel of the Year by Goodreads.<\/p>\n
In 2015, The Nightingale became an international blockbuster and was Goodreads Best Historical fiction novel for 2015 and won the coveted People’s Choice award for best fiction in the same year. It was named a Best Book of the Year by Amazon, iTunes, Buzzfeed, the Wall Street Journal, Paste, and The Week.<\/p>\n
The Nightingale is currently in pre-production at Tri Star. Firefly Lane, her beloved novel about two best friends, was the #1 Netflix series around the world, in the week it came out. The popular tv show stars Katherine Heigl and Sarah Chalke.<\/p>\n
A former attorney, Kristin lives in the Pacific Northwest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Women: The Emotional Bestseller from the author of The Nightingale<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n An instant\u00a0<\/span>Sunday Times<\/span>\u00a0bestseller and soon to be a major motion picture!<\/span><\/p>\n ‘Astonishing. Compelling. Powerful’ –\u00a0Delia Owens, bestselling author of\u00a0<\/span>Where the Crawdads Sing<\/span><\/p>\n ‘Stuns with sacrifice. Uplifts with heroism’ –\u00a0Bonnie Garmus, bestselling author of\u00a0<\/span>Lessons in Chemistry<\/span><\/p>\n ‘Powerful’ –\u00a0Matt Haig, bestselling author of\u00a0<\/span>The Midnight Library<\/span><\/p>\n From the worldwide bestselling author of\u00a0<\/span>The Four Winds<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>The Nightingale<\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span>Firefly Lane\u00a0<\/span>(a Number One series on Netflix),<\/span>The Women<\/span>\u00a0is a story of devastating loss and epic love.<\/span><\/p>\n It would be the journey of a lifetime . . .<\/span><\/p>\n ‘<\/span>Women can be heroes, too<\/span>‘. When twenty-year-old nursing student, Frances “Frankie” McGrath, hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on California’s idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different path for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins the Army Nurses Corps and follows his path.<\/p>\n As green and inexperienced as the young men sent to Vietnam to fight, Frankie is overwhelmed by the chaos and destruction of war, as well as the unexpected trauma of coming home to a changed America. Frankie will also discover the true value of female friendship and the heartbreak that love can cause.<\/p>\n Readers love\u00a0<\/span>The Women<\/span>:<\/span>
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\n‘It honours ALL women<\/span>: those who have fought for their rights and freedoms, those who have been overlooked and underappreciated, those who have been forgotten by families and society’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":54248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"product_cat":[23],"product_tag":[],"yoast_head":"\n