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Join author Kristin Hannah for a very special happy hour, with IslandWood Founder Debbi Brainerd, at Debbi's beautiful Bainbridge home. You and nineteen guests will enjoy appetizers and drinks while you share an evening with Kristin, hearing about the inspiration for her work, her writing process, her life, and so much more!

Kristin Hannah is the award-winning and bestselling author of more than 20 novels. As Slate.com reported, "If there's one novel that dominated 2024, it was The Women, by Kristin Hannah." The novel won Goodreads 2024 Choice Award for Historical Fiction.

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 bookstores' bestseller lists. Additionally, it was selected as a book club pick by both the Today Show and the Book of the Month club, which named it the best book of 2021.
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.

Hannah is also the author of 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. Additionally, it was a selection of the Reese Witherspoon Book Club in 2023. It was named a Best Book of the Year by Amazon, iTunes, Buzzfeed, the Wall Street Journal, Paste, and The Week.

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 beloved novel about two best friends, was the #1 Netflix series around the world in the week it came out.