Despised by her shallow parents and sisters for being sickly and unattractive-“too tall, too thin, too pale, too unsure of herself”-Elsa escapes their cruelty when a single night of abandon leads to pregnancy and forced marriage to the son of Italian immigrant farmers. There were times in my journey when I felt as if that penny and the hope it represented were the only things that kept me going.” We meet Elsa Wolcott in Dalhart, Texas, in 1921, on the eve of her 25th birthday, and wind up with her in California in 1936 in a saga of almost unrelieved woe. “Hope is a coin I carry: an American penny, given to me by a man I came to love. The popular tv show stars Katherine Heigl and Sarah Chalke and Season Two is currently set to conclude the series on April 27, 2023.Ī former attorney, Kristin lives in the Pacific Northwest.The miseries of the Depression and Dust Bowl years shape the destiny of a Texas family. Firefly Lane, her beloved novel about two best friends, was the #1 Netflix series around the world, in the week it came out.
Tri Star has also optioned The Great Alone and it is in development. The Nightingale is currently in production at Tri Star, with Dakota and Elle Fanning set to star. 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. 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.
The Great Alone became an instant New York Times #1 bestseller and was named the Best Historical Novel of the Year by Goodreads. It was named a Best Book of the Year by Amazon, iTunes, Buzzfeed, the Wall Street Journal, Paste, and The Week.
Kristin Hannah is the award-winning and bestselling author of more than 20 novels including the international blockbuster, The Nightingale, which was named Goodreads Best Historical fiction novel for 2015 and won the coveted People's Choice award for best fiction in the same year.
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