“I was trying to decide do I throw this away? Do I start over? What do I do?” The thriller seemed a good idea for a follow-up to “The Nightingale,” a best-seller throughout 2015 after its release, but 18 months into the project something didn’t feel right, she says. “It ultimately just didn’t coalesce into a story that I wanted to tell, that I was comfortable with,” Hannah says. “I had just come off the sort of mind-boggling success of ‘The Nightingale,’ and I guess I was … I don’t know, it sort of messed with my head a little bit.” “What happened was I set out originally to write a kind of a domestic thriller set in modern-day Alaska,” Hannah says from her son’s home in Studio City where she was hanging out with her two small grandchildren recently. Kristin Hannah has written a lot of books, though it’s nothing she spends time considering. “This is 20-something,” she says of “The Great Alone,” her latest, “although I haven’t actually counted them in a while.”īut “The Great Alone,” a page-turner set in the wilds of Alaska that celebrates female empowerment in exploring a theme of domestic violence, is sure to stand out for Hannah, no matter how many more she writes, given the difficult birth of this book, she says.
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