Distant Shores

ByKristin Hannah

Release Date: 2002-07-16
Genre: Fiction & Literature

Score: 4

From 1,426 Ratings

Description

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.”—People

Elizabeth 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 Elizabeth’s 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.

Reviews

Boring.
4
By dancin evergreen
Well written, but very easy to put down.
Ok
3
By TBild
This is one of my favorite authors but this book just dragged on too long and I found it somewhat depressing very different I felt than the others.
Good Read
4
By Mcb717
Story line was good…Easy reading….Feel good ending
Distracting reader
3
By fattyme:(
Why does the reader sound so angry all of the time?!
Not up to Par
2
By cloverhessrs
The female protagonist was weak. I had much higher hopes for a strong ending. Left me empty.
Distant shores
1
By wtfdik630
Awful. Truly depressingly, boringly, awful.
This is the author of The Great Alone and Nightingale? Impossible!
Distant Shores
1
By Siobhan N
I could not believe this was written by the same author as “The Nightingale.” The woe-is-me wife and mother with emotionally fragile daughters whines throughout about her dreams. Every one of her experiences has meaning about her life. She separates from her cheating husband and finds herself, and later they realize their love is too strong to survive without each other. Trite and boring.
Annoying
1
By marjorie8888
Since I Read the Nightingale, I thought I would read another book by this author. This was a mistake. I picked up distant shores and it was nothing but a whining
,pitiful, “searching for my life‘s purpose “book. It was so verbose I felt like she was just filling pages with descriptions of what the beach etc. looked like. I do not recommend.
Distant Shores
5
By Kcnjmg
I loved this book, it took me in first thing. The author made you feel for this couple. Laughed, cried made me feel good. Anyone over the age of 50 will enjoy this book.
Don't just say I love you...
5
By CJN Family
What an heartwarming novel. Hannah truly reveals what a relationship can reveal when married a long time. How wives/mothers sacrifice themselves for the sake of their husbands and children to the point of losing themselves. But when you think it's over, LOVE truly prevails!