Kristin Hannah

[close] Join the New York Times best-selling author of Firefly Lane, True Colors, Winter Garden, and more as she discusses her previous work and her new book Night Road. Kristin will be available from March 7 - 14, 2011.

[close] Hello and welcome! I’m so glad you found your way here. The Nightingale is a book that really means a lot to me. To be completely honest with you, I did everything I could not to write it. But when research led me to the story of a nineteen-year-old Belgian woman who had created an escape route out of Nazi-occupied France, I was hooked. I realized that with all the World War II fiction and non-fiction I had read, I hadn't read this story, and I believed it deserved to be told. As I read about this brave woman--and so many others like her, women who put their lives at risk to save Jewish children--I found myself consumed with a single overwhelming question, as relevant today as it was seventy years ago. When would I as, a wife and mother, risk my life and more importantly, my child’s life to save a stranger? That question is at the very heart of the The Nightingale. It is a question that haunts me still. The Nightingale is an epic love story and intimate family drama about two sisters in France, caught up in a world at war, living in a country under siege, who will have to do the unthinkable to survive. I’ll be back to chat with you all in a few weeks. So, have fun sharing your thoughts and ideas and comments and thanks for joining the group! Oh, and if you've read The Nightingale, don't forget to post your review here. Order your copy of The Nightingale today!