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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Years ago, Meghann Dontess made a terrible choice that cost her everything, including the love of her sister, Claire. Now, Meghann is a highly successful attorney who doesn't believe in intimacy-until she meets the one man who can change her mind. Claire Cavenaugh has fallen in love for the first time in her life. As her wedding day approaches, she prepares to face her strong-willed older sister. Reunited after more than two decades apart, these two women who believe they have nothing in common will try to become what they never were: a family. Tender, funny, bittersweet, and moving, Between Sisters skillfully explores the profound joys and sorrows shared by sisters, the mistakes made in the name of love, and the promise of redemption- all beautifully told by acclaimed author Kristin Hannah.
- Format: TradePaperback
- Author: Hannah, Kristin
- ISBN: 9780345519467
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 7.94 x 1.02
- Number Of Pages: 480
- Publication Year: 2009
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“It was a fact, well known in Family Court, that no woman who’d gone through a divorce ever saw the world–or love–in quite the same way again.”
Jennifer E. - 3 years 3 months ago“It was a fact, well known in Family Court, that no woman who’d gone through a divorce ever saw the world–or love–in quite the same way again.” Of Hannah’s 26 novel oeuvre, “Meghann Dontess is the only character who has ever appeared as a secondary character and demanded her own story.” She’s “always been as sensitive as a serial killer.” Her “opinions are like bullwhips. Every one leaves a bloody mark…You talk about love; I answer in settlement.” Although she works as a successful attorney, she hates her job. Her client’s husband tried to shoot her after she ruined him in a divorce lawsuit. Her sister Claire is marrying a country singer on whim, and Meghann is planning the wedding. For Meghann, “The perfect accessory is a prenup.” For Claire, if marriage is a mistake, it’s one she wants to make. “Claire’s legacy from Mama was a belief that sooner or later love walked out on you. Meg…didn’t believe in love at all.” She’s not worried about someone breaking her heart again. She’s worried she doesn't have a heart to break. “Love was a rope bridge made of the thinnest strands. It might hold your weight for a while, but sooner or later, it would break…The point of love was holding each other up through the hard times.” “You can’t make decisions for other people…But you can sacrifice for them. Isn’t that what love is?” Abandonment, estrangement, love lost, a medical crisis, and two sisters who have never really known how to be a family: Between Sisters is Hannah’s literary coming of age from historical fiction to contemporary novels about “women in conflict and crisis learning to face modern hardships by relying on themselves, their friends, and their families.” It’s a metaphorical melding of Hannah’s own personality traits into characters so real that “they walk right off the page and sit down for coffee.” Between Sisters “will draw a smile as often as a tear” and “will make you want to call your sister when you’re done.”