He blames himself for the tragedy that’s engulfed his family, and the lure of the bottle is too strong for him to resist. Fighting against a slide into deep depression, she offers to help look after the small daughter of her first love, Nick, now the town policeman. With nowhere else to go she returns to Mystic, the small town on the Olympic Peninsula where she grew up, hoping that Blake will call and tell her it’s all been a cruel joke.
Annie’s self-identity is based on being a wife and mother, and now she is neither of those things. On the day she puts her only child on a plane, Annie Colwater’s husband of 19 years tells her he’s leaving her for another woman. It’s a beautifully drawn portrait of a woman going backward before she can go forward, once her world is shattered after her husband utters a single phrase. At its core, it’s the story of self-discovery. Kristin Hannah’s latest, her first in hardcover, is definitely more mainstream fiction than genre romance, despite the fact that one of its main components is a strong love story.
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