Hearts on a String: A Novel
By (Author) Kris Radish
Random House USA Inc
Bantam Books Inc
15th June 2010
United States
General
Fiction
Saga fiction (family / generational sagas)
FIC
Paperback
336
Width 130mm, Height 203mm, Spine 18mm
255g
Bestselling author Kris Radish delves deeply into the emotions of five very different women who are thrown together by chanceonly to discover that they have more in common than they ever could have imagined.
Holly Blandeen has always cherished the story her grandmother told her about the thread that connects all women, tying them forever in sisterhood. Its a beautiful idea, but with all the curveballs life has thrown her way, Holly has often felt isolated, different from other women. That starts to change when she meets four strangers in an airport and they agree to share a luxury hotel suite because a powerful spring storm is barreling across the country, stranding travelers from California to Florida. What begins as a spur-of-the-moment decision becomes an unlikely, unexpected, and sometimes reluctantexercise in female bonding, as these five exceptional womeneach at a crossroadsswap stories, share secrets, and seek answers to the questions theyve been asking about life, love, and the path to true happiness. A storm may have grounded them for the moment, but after this wild adventure in which anything can and does happen, theyll never have to fly solo again.
Kris Radish creates characters that seek and then celebrate the discovery of . . . womens innate power.Denver Post
Kris Radish, author of six novels, now lives in the San Francisco Bay area, where she is at work on her new novel, which Bantam will publish in 2010.