Alison Espach

1 week ago | kirkusreviews.com | Eleanor Pilcher |Kristin Hannah |Alison Espach

Still, a respectful and absorbing page-turner. Hannah’s new novel is an homage to the extraordinary courage and endurance of Frenchwomen during World War II. In 1995, an elderly unnamed widow is moving into an Oregon nursing home on the urging of her controlling son, Julien, a surgeon. This trajectory is interrupted when she receives an invitation to return to France to attend a ceremony honoring passeurs: people who aided the escape of others during the war.

1 week ago | kirkusreviews.com | Abigail Dean |Alison Espach |Kristin Hannah

Uneven but fitfully amusing. Awards & Accolades Likes 24 Our Verdict GET IT New York Times Bestseller Betrayed by her husband, a severely depressed young woman gets drawn into the over-the-top festivities at a lavish wedding. Phoebe Stone, who teaches English literature at a St. Louis college, is plotting her own demise. Her husband, Matt, has left her for another woman, and Phoebe is taking it hard.

1 week ago | kirkusreviews.com | Peter Geye |Alison Espach |Kristin Hannah

Uneven but fitfully amusing. Awards & Accolades Likes 21 Our Verdict GET IT New York Times Bestseller Betrayed by her husband, a severely depressed young woman gets drawn into the over-the-top festivities at a lavish wedding. Phoebe Stone, who teaches English literature at a St. Louis college, is plotting her own demise. Her husband, Matt, has left her for another woman, and Phoebe is taking it hard.

3 weeks ago | kirkusreviews.com | Jane Flett |Alison Espach |Richard Wright

Betrayed by her husband, a severely depressed young woman gets drawn into the over-the-top festivities at a lavish wedding. Phoebe Stone, who teaches English literature at a St. Louis college, is plotting her own demise. Her husband, Matt, has left her for another woman, and Phoebe is taking it hard. Indeed, she's determined just where and how she will end it all: at an oceanfront hotel in Newport, where she will lie on a king-sized canopy bed and take a bottle of her cat’s painkillers.

3 weeks ago | kirkusreviews.com | Natalia Theodoridou |Kristin Hannah |Alison Espach

A rich, relentless—if overlong—tale of violence and the men who wield it. Theodoridou’s “Bluebeard” retelling asks if monsters are born or made. An unnamed stage actress sits in her apartment, telling her young son a fairy story. Urged on by the ghosts of blood-drenched women that only she can see, she speaks of a boy born in a stately home.