Hannah has created a central character who is easy to relate to, even though we may not have lived a life as hard as hers. It is the story of survival in a time when many didn’t. It is the story of a mother’s love for her children, her adopted family, the land and the women around her. Unfortunately, prolonged drought changes things forever and she discovers she will do anything to protect those who are important to her. She finally finds her place with a family and a home on a farm on the Great Plains. This is the story of Elsa, born into a wealthy family, but unloved. There, they found themselves not battling with drought, but with big business, people with money, and prejudice. People travelled to California with the promise of a better life with food and available jobs.
Life on the land was not easy and millions of farmers found themselves without an income as their crops withered and died and the winds tore the topsoil from the land.
Depression, drought, coming out of one war and heading for another one. The Four Winds is a sweeping tale of hardship set in the 1930s, in Texas and then California. She has written 24 books, including Wild, The Great Alone, The Winter Garden and The Nightingale which has sold over 2 million copies and is being made into a film. US-based Kristin Hannah is a lawyer-turned-writer.
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