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The New York Times #1 Bestseller from the author of The Nightingale

"An unforgettable portrait of love and war" People

Alaska, 1974. Untamed. Unpredictable. A story of a family in crisis struggling to survive at the edge of the world, it is also a story of young and enduring love.

Cora Allbright and her husband Ernt, a recently-returned Vietnam veteran scarred by the war, uproot their thirteen year old daughter Leni to start a new life in Alaska. Utterly unprepared for the weather and the isolation, but welcomed by the close-knit community, they fight to build a home in this harsh, beautiful wilderness.

At once an epic story of human survival and love, and an intimate portrait of a family tested beyond endurance, The Great Alone offers a glimpse into a vanishing way of life in America. With her trademark combination of elegant prose and deeply drawn characters, Kristin Hannah has delivered an enormously powerful story that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the remarkable and enduring strength of women.

About the highest stakes a family can face and the bonds that can tear a community apart, this is a novel as spectacular and powerful as Alaska itself. It is the finest example of Kristin Hannah's ability to weave together the deeply personal with the universal.

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A 2018 Indie Next Pick

One of...
Southern Living's Books Coming Out This Winter That We Can't Wait to Read
Popsugar's 10 Most Anticipated Books of 2018
Working Mother's Most Anticipated Books of 2018
Brit & Co's Most Anticipated Books of 2018
Seattle Times' Books to Look Forward to in 2018
The Everygirl's 10 New Novels to Read this Winter

AudioFile Earphones Award Winner

Listeners, beware: You won't want to stop listening to narrator Julia Whelan's performance of this complex story of survival and family set in a 1970s Alaskan homesteading community. ...With pitch-perfect timing and a touch of drama, Whelan exquisitely builds the tension, creating an enveloping atmosphere of foreboding that's difficult to turn away from...a don't-miss audiobook experience. -AudioFile

[Julia] Whelan ratchets up the suspense in her tense narration of this tale...This edge-of-your-seat audiobook will keep listeners riveted. -Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

This epic atmospheric novel examines humans' will to endure the unthinkable. --Real Simple magazine

There are many great things about this book...It will thrill her fans with its combination of Greek tragedy, Romeo and Juliet-like coming of age story and domestic potboiler. She recreates in magical detailthe lives of Alaska's homesteaders...and is just as specific and authentic in her depiction of the spiritual wounds of post-Vietnam America. A tour de force. --Kirkus (starred review)

Hannah vividly evokes the natural beauty and danger of Alaska and paints a compelling portrait of a family in crisis and a community on the brink of change. --Booklist

In this latest from Hannah, the landscape is hard and bleak but our young heroine learns to accept it and discover her true self...fans will appreciate the astuteness of the story and the unbreakable connection between mother and child. --Library Journal

Hannah skillfully situates the emotional family saga in the events and culture of the late '70s... But it's her tautly drawn characters--Large Marge, Genny, Mad Earl, Tica, Tom--who contribute not only to Leni's improbable survival but to her salvation amid her family's tragedy. --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Hannah turns the written word into wonderful prose...Times are difficult for so many in this novel and Hannah captures their suffering with sensitivity. The author expertly shows how love, death and birth run the full circle of life. --RT Book Reviews

Praise for The Nightingale:

Haunting, action-packed, and compelling.--Christina Baker Kline, #1 New York Times bestselling author

Absolutely riveting!...Read this book. --Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff, Director of the University of Miami Holocaust Teacher Institute

Beautifully written and richly evocative. --Sara Gruen, #1 New York Times bestselling author

"A heart-pounding story." --USA Today

A respectful and absorbing page-turner. --Kirkus Reviews

Tender, compelling...a satisfying slice of life in Nazi-occupied France. --Jewish Book Council

"Expect to devour The Nightingale in as few sittings as possible; the high-stakes plot and lovable characters won't allow any rest until all of their fates are known." --Shelf Awareness

Powerful...an unforgettable portrait of love and war.--People

I enjoyed [Julie Whelan's] beautifully articulate voice which is a perfect way to enjoy this epic tale as she dots all her Is and crosses her Ts and gives an unforgettably emotional rendition of the novel bringing to life the absolute enormousness of Alaska. Her vocal interpretations are remarkable and she catches both female and male intonations perfectly but her child voice is absolutely amazing. -The Reading Frenzy

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About the Author

KRISTIN HANNAH is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty novels, including The Nightingale, The Great Alone, and The Four Winds. A former lawyer turned writer, she lives with her husband in the Pacific Northwest. --This text refers to the audioCD edition.

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'Hannah is superb at delving into her main characters’ psyches and delineating nuances of feeling.' (The Washington Post) --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Alaska, 1974. Untamed. Unpredictable. And for a family in crisis, the ultimate test of the human spirit. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Alaska, 1974. Untamed. Unpredictable. And for a family in crisis, the ultimate test of the human spirit. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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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 recent novel The Nightingale was a New York Times number one bestseller, selling almost three million copies worldwide. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Alaska, 1974. Untamed. Unpredictable. A story of a family in crisis struggling to survive at the edge of the world, it is also a story of young and enduring love.

Cora Allbright and her husband, Ernt – a recently-returned Vietnam veteran scarred by the war – uproot their thirteen-year-old daughter, Leni, to start a new life in Alaska. Utterly unprepared for the weather and the isolation, but welcomed by the close-knit community, they fight to build a home in this harsh, beautiful wilderness.

At once an epic story of human survival and love, and an intimate portrait of a family tested beyond endurance, The Great Alone offers a glimpse into a vanishing way of life in America. With her trademark combination of elegant prose and deeply drawn characters, Kristin Hannah has delivered an enormously powerful story that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the remarkable and enduring strength of women. It is the finest example of Hannah’s ability to weave together the deeply personal with the universal.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B076JTLJJN
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Macmillan (30 January 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2660 KB
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Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 493 pages

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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. It was also named a Best Book of the Year by Amazon, iTunes, Buzzfeed, the Wall Street Journal, Paste, and The Week. 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.

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.

The Nightingale is currently in production at Tri Star, with Dakota and Elle Fanning set to star. Tri Star has also optioned The Great Alone and it is in development. Firefly Lane, her novel about two best friends, was the #1 Netflix show around the world, in the week it came out. The popular tv show stars Katherine Heigl and Sarah Chalke and Season Two is currently being filmed.

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Jess Williams

Breathtaking

Reviewed in Australia on 7 February 2022

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What an incredible story. It's one that has stayed with me, where I find myself thinking about it even weeks after completion. There were twists I was not expecting and the author has a magical way of writing - her description of the dynamics, the emotions and the connections is deep and complex. She was able to write in a wonderfully descriptive way that felt organic and natural, and really added to the story. I've never been to Alaska but heck this makes me want to go there. The metaphor of the setting and the way Alaska became almost a CHARACTER of the book was unlike anything I've ever read before. This is definitely now in my all time top ten books.

Reviewed in Australia on 28 October 2020

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This is an epic love story that is boundless and wild just like the Alaska I learned about throughout this novel. The author has a gift for the expression of the hearts and landscape that beautifully weave throughout the lives and seasons of both. Truly capturing the nature of our souls and the inexplicable link we have through our biological and psychological connection to the people and the landscape of our lives. I am in awe of the author's ability to draw us into the great unknown and slowly reveal the untamed wilderness of Alaska; the last frontier that refuses to be subservient to the will of humanity...Boundless, beautiful and tempestuous Alaska endures... akin to love itself.

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snapper

A vivid story full of courage, tragedy and love.

Reviewed in Australia on 28 October 2018

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Absolutely beautifully written. The characters are so real and their first winter in Alaska makes you hold your breath in waiting so see what happens. The courage and tragedy that both Cora and Leni deal with throughout the book make you admire such strong women.
An amazing book that you will read and have to stop every now and again just to catch your breath only to rush back and see what happens next.

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A page-turner and rollicking easy summer read

Reviewed in Australia on 19 December 2019

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A page-turner and a rollicking summer read with plenty of twists and turns. Very serviceably written but not a literary novel and some of the extreme action was either heavy-handed or underdone, but I would recommend it on the strength of its mother/daughter ties, enjoyable story twists, and her indelibly drawn evocations of Alaska.

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charmaine

This book gets inside your soul

Reviewed in Australia on 1 February 2020

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What can I even say about this book? I read the whole thing in only a few days and yet I feel like I lived within it. This book paints such a rich portrait of a place and people that now feel so familiar to me. I can still close my eyes and perfectly picture myself sitting outside the cabin, watching the tide come in over the bay with an eagle circling over head. I can still hear Large Marge's laugh in my head. How can it even be possible that none of it is real? This author has created something truly magical in these pages and now that it is over, I feel homesick for Alaska.

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Ellie Humphris

BUY IT NOW YOU WILL LOVE IT

Reviewed in Australia on 1 March 2018

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Seriously, the best book I have EVER read. I loved every single minute of the book which I read in one sitting... The highs are incredible and the lows devastating. I smiled and laughed and cried. THE. BEST. BOOK. EVER.

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Heather Howard

If possible I would rate this 10 stars

Reviewed in Australia on 13 August 2018

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Kristen Hannah is a superb writer she captures the changing moods of both the Alaskan landscape, difficult themes and characters with insight and love. I have now read all her books but the Great Alone is in my opinion her best yet.

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I was captured from the beginning.

Reviewed in Australia on 6 June 2018

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This is an outstanding novel. I was captured from the beginning. The characters were carefully drawn and compelling. Having travelled to Alaska I found the landscape and living conditions so aptly described. You could feel the cold!! An amazing story that involved me throughout. Loved it

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ms k l ralph

Is it for the teen market?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 December 2018

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It’s Certainly not going to satisfy a well-read adult.
A disappointment. Repetitive. Set pieces that lacked authenticity, characters that didn’t engage.
Thin descriptions of Alaska, of the cold, of the scenery.
Far too long a book for little good content. Lazy ending.

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Dee

Atmospheric and absorbing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 August 2018

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It's been about a week since I finished this and I still keep thinking about it. The writing was so raw in a way and so richly detailed that the world came alive. I felt lost in the wilds of Alaska, trapped in this home with this PTSD father, and yet so utterly enchanted by the beautiful and wild landscape that I wanted - longed even - to be there myself. I first read The Nightingale and was at first surprised a little by this novel, as it was so different from that but completely masterful in it's own way - higgling that Hannah is simply a born storyteller and writes in a way that complements the story she is working on, as this would not have been as powerful with the more lyrical and poetic elements that worked so well in the former, rather this utilised raw emotion, atmosphere and genuine page turning magic - I didn't want it to end.

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Jade

The Great Alone

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 April 2019

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Going into The Great Alone I was largely drawn due to the setting of Alaska (I feel such a pull to books set in this state), however having now completed this book, I can confirm Kristin Hannah crafts a truly atmospheric and immersive backdrop, but she also writes characters you find yourself invested in & rooting for.

Moving to Alaska is supposed to be a fresh start for the Allbright family... Except Ernt, a Vietnam war veteran finds his demons travel to Alaska with him, seeing his wife, Cora, and daughter, Leni, bearing the brunt of it. Note: domestic violence is strong and recurring throughout this book. The Great Alone makes for hard reading, not only because of the domestic violence, but also actions and events that occur due to Ernt’s paranoid state of mind.

The Great Alone spans a course of more than ten years, through which we see the trials & tribulations of the Allbright family – especially the growth and perseverance of Leni; a young girl who we see transform into a woman as we page turn, a female protagonist that possesses an astounding strength.

Without a doubt Leni stands out to me by way of characters, and she is someone who will stay with me for a while, but also I greatly enjoyed the character of Large Marge. Large Marge is a shopkeeper in the Alaskan town the family settle into, and someone who very quickly befriends the females of the Allbright family. She is such a character! I actually quite enjoyed the entire community of Kaneq, liking not only the dynamics of the town but also the individuality of the characters found there.

The setting of the Alaskan wilderness felt like a character in its own right at times; I just love when a location feels like that. There is such beauty to be found there but a severe harshness also, which is depicted so well. I like how we were able to experience Alaska during each season, especially during winter. Upon reflection, I think the way in which Alaska is written mirrors the personality of Ernt Allbright a fair bit.

I have a number of positive thoughts and takeaways from my reading experience of The Great Alone, but I also have quite a significant negative: the ending. The end of The Great Alone felt rushed in my opinion and didn’t have the same depth I found in the first three quarters of the book. Overall, I would still recommend this book to others – especially for the landscape & themes of love, courage, and strength.

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JaquiP

Lyrical and we'll written if a little long and melancholy

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 August 2018

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Kristin Hannah is a wonderful and popular writer. I am not usually a fan of over long descriptions but the beautiful words she used to describe Alaska do make the place come alive. "Alaska... There's nothing up there is there? Just bears and Eskimos..... It's a tough environment "In Alaska you can make one mistake. One. The second one will kill you." But Alaska is full of amazing people and Leni's dad fleeing demons needs a new beginning and drags his ill prepared family with him in his pursuit of the great adventure. They find a hostile space these Cheechakos - a name for the newly arrived and ignorant - and fight for their place. I do love her writing but there was so much description and the book felt a little overly long but it was a very good read and I learned a lot about Alaska, it's people and history and about attraction and abuse and love too. It will make a terrific film. Very scenic.

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Boxie

Beautiful & heartbreaking

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 January 2019

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Set in the unforgiving but beautiful landscape of Alaska this draws you into their world. I didn’t see many of the twists and turns of Leni’s life unfolding and the book had me in tears a couple of times. Stunningly written and in-depth realistic characters. This is the second book I’ve read by the author (the first being The Nightingale) and I will definitely look for more

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