![]() ![]() Like her, they’ll remember that night, so long ago, when the rain turned to ash…. Jude Farraday, Mia, Lexi Baill and Zach are the prominent characters of the story. Kristin Hannah is the author of this remarkable novel. If anyone sees her here, just standing on this lonely roadside in a gathering mist, it will all come up again. Night Road is the suspense, mystery, redemption, literature, fiction and thriller novel which plots the story of a middle-aged woman who works hard to raise her kids happy. They think a few columns in a newspaper give them the facts they need. They sit on barstools and in porch swings and spout opinions, half truths, making judgments that aren’t theirs to make. People on the island still talk about what happened in the summer of ’04. ![]() Just the thought of it had been enough to make her turn the steering wheel too sharply better to go off the road than to find herself here. ![]() Her mind had been on other things back then, on the miniutae of everyday life. Once, it had been the quickest way home and she’d taken it easily, turning onto its potholed surface without a second thought, rarely noticing how the earth dropped away on either edge. ![]() This road is like her life knee deep in shadow. Even now, in midday, this stubbled, winding ribbon of asphalt holds the morning mist close. On either side of her, giant evergreens grow clustered together, rising high into the blue summer sky. “She stands at the hairpin turn on Night Road. ![]()
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