Kristin Hannah is a New York Times bestselling author. She is a former lawyer turned writer and is the mother of one son. She and her husband live in the Pacific Northwest near Seattle, and Hawaii. Her first novel published in the UK, Night Road, was one of eight books selected for the UK's 2011 TV Book Club Summer Read, and her novel The Nightingale was a New York Times number one bestseller, selling almost three million copies worldwide.
Movingly written and plotted with the skill of Greek tragedy. You'll keep turning the pages until the last racking sob -- <i>Daily Mail</i> on <i>The Nightingale</i> Great characters, great plots, great emotions, who could ask for more in a novel? -- Isabel Allende on <i>The Nightingale</i> Epic . . . By the end, I was surrounded by snow drifts of tissues damp with my tears -- <i>Washington Post</i> on <i>The Great Alone</i> Hannah has delivered a masterclass in all the different ways love can both save us and destroy us [. . . ] She perfectly captures and evokes the majesty and splendid isolation of Alaska and it feels a privilege to have journeyed there with her. This is a story that will stay with me for a long, long time -- Karen Swan on <i>The Great Alone</i> A rich, compelling novel of love, sacrifice and survival, as epic as the Alaskan landscape it so vividly describes -- Kate Morton on <i>The Great Alone</i>