Distant Shores: A Novel

ISBN: 0345450728

Author: Hannah, Kristin

Condition: Used

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The beloved author of The Women explores the heartbreaking choices facing a couple who have forgotten how to love each other.Hannah examines whether love and commitment are enough to sustain a marriage when two people who have put their individual dreams on ice get a chance to defrost them . . . in fast-moving prose punctuated by snappy asides.-PeopleElizabeth and Jackson Shore married young, raised two daughters, and weathered the storms of youth as they built a family. From a distance, their lives look picture perfect. But after the girls leave home, Jack and Elizabeth quietly drift apart. When Jack accepts a wonderful new job, Elizabeth puts her own needs aside to follow him across the country.Then tragedy turns Elizabeths world upside down. In the aftermath, she questions everything about her life-her choices, her marriage, even her long-forgotten dreams. In a daring move that shocks her husband, friends, and daughters, she lets go of the woman she has become-and reaches out for the woman she wants to be.