#1 New York Times Bestselling Author

The Women

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The missing. The forgotten. The brave…

The Women.

From master storyteller Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds, comes the story of a turbulent, transformative era in America: the 1960s. The Women is that rarest of novels—at once an intimate portrait of a woman coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided by war and broken by politics, of a generation both fueled by dreams and lost on the battlefield.

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  • Library Read Hall of Fame Selection for February
  • Goodreads Readers’ Most Anticipated Pick for February
  • Amazon Spotlight Pick
  • New York Times Featured Book Coming in February
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“Hannah again shines her light on overlooked women in history”
People Magazine (Book of the Week)

“Hannah’s tale, rich with period detail, is an impassioned tribute to the heroism of the many thousands who did serve, as well as a hymn to female solidarity in the darkest of settings. It’s a surprisingly original take on a well-trodden subject.”
The Times (London)

“One of the greatest storytellers of our time, Kristin Hannah, tackles one of the most cruel and despicable wars of the last century, the Vietnam War. The Women reveals the powerful contributions and horrific sacrifices of the American military nurses who served in a war whose agencies refused to acknowledge that they were even there. Perhaps no words can bring closure to a nation still ashamed of booing our returning heroes, but the heroine, Frances McGrath, stirs a deep, overdue compassion and tears for every single soldier—and especially the forgotten women who sacrificed so much. Never has a novel of war metamorphosed so profoundly into a story of the human heart.”
—Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing

“Hannah enjoys the authorial reach to educate legions of readers about the significant subjects she dramatizes. In doing so she demonstrates that, just like the women she writes about, she deserves to be recognized.”
Minneapolis Star Tribune

“Stuns with sacrifice; uplifts with heroism . . . an important, long overdue tribute to the brave women nurses who served in Vietnam.”
—Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons in Chemistry

“Hannah is in top form here… Hannah’s real superpower is her ability to hook you along from catastrophe to catastrophe, sometimes peering between your fingers, because you simply cannot give up on her characters. She gathers women into the (Vietnam) experience with moving conviction.”
The New York Times

“Hannah tells the story of real but unsung heroes”
The Washington Post

The Women is historical fiction at its very best. So moving, so wrenching, and yet, in the end, uplifting. Brava! I loved The Nightingale and The Four Winds, but The Women is my favorite.”
—Nicholas D. Kristof, Pulitzer Prize–winning coauthor of Half the Sky

“Women can be heroes too is the message at the core of Kristin Hannah’s amazing book The Women. With profound insight and a vivid sense of the time and place, she focuses not only on three nurses who served in the hell of Vietnam and came home to be ignored and forgotten, but the fierce courage it took to triumph over both. It’s about time we gave these women their due. Kristin Hannah has done it with a powerful portrait of ordinary women who were, indeed, heroes.”
—Eileen Dreyer, RN, BS, Author of Soldier’s Heart

“Many would say that the nurses who helped fight the Vietnam War were forgotten. Believe me, for those of us who were there, these women were never forgotten—and never will be. Kristin Hannah honors them with this novel.“
—Karl Marlantes, author of Matterhorn

The Four Winds

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Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens to bury them all. One of the darkest periods of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl era, has arrived with a vengeance.

  • #1 New York Times Bestseller
  • #1 USA Today Bestseller
  • #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller

The Great Alone

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Alaska, 1974. Untamed. Unpredictable. And for a family in crisis, the ultimate test of the human spirit.

Goodreads Best Historical Novel of 2018

An Instant #1 New York Times Print and Print/eBook Bestseller

New York Times Audiobook Bestseller

The Nightingale

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Elle Fanning and Dakota Fanning

In love we find out who we want to be.
In war we find out who we are.

Goodreads Best Historical Novel of 2015

People’s Choice Favorite Fiction Winner

Amazon Best Book of the Year

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Warner Bros Pre-Buys Kristin Hannah Book ‘The Women,’ Developing Portrait Of Vietnam Nurses For Film - EXCLUSIVE to Deadline : Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group has preemptively acquired rights to The Women, a new book from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kristin Hannah, which is up for publication by St. Martin’s Press in ... Read more
Kristin Hannah is Named One of Forbes’ “50 Over 50” - “Age can be your superpower. Just ask any of the entrepreneurs, investors, inventors and artists on our third annual 50 Over 50 list.” Read the full list »Read Kristin’s profile »
Kristin Hannah Reinvented Herself. She Thinks America Can Do the Same. - NEW YORK TIMES: In “The Four Winds,” the author of “The Nightingale” and “The Great Alone” takes readers back to another era of environmental disaster, economic collapse and fresh starts. Read the article on the ... Read more

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