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The Women

By: Kristin Hannah
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
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Featuring an exclusive appearance by the author, Kristin Hannah.

From the worldwide bestselling author of The Four Winds, The Nightingale and Firefly Lane (a Number One series on Netflix), The Women is a story of devastating loss and epic love.

'Astonishing. Compelling. Powerful' – Delia Owens, bestselling author of Where the Crawdads Sing

'Stuns with sacrifice. Uplifts with heroism' – Bonnie Garmus, bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry

‘Powerful’ – Matt Haig, bestselling author of The Midnight Library

An instant Sunday Times bestseller and soon to be a major motion picture!


Women can be heroes, too’. When twenty-year-old nursing student, Frances “Frankie” McGrath, hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on California’s idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different path for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins the Army Nurses Corps and follows his path.

As green and inexperienced as the young men sent to Vietnam to fight, Frankie is overwhelmed by the chaos and destruction of war, as well as the unexpected trauma of coming home to a changed America. Frankie will also discover the true value of female friendship and the heartbreak that love can cause.

Listeners love The Women:

'The sure touch of Golden Voice narrator Julia Whelan transforms Kristin Hannah's absorbing novel about Vietnam War combat nurses into an addictive listen' - AudioFile

'It honours ALL women: those who have fought for their rights and freedoms, those who have been overlooked and underappreciated, those who have been forgotten by families and society'

'I’ve been looking forward to this book’s release for months'

'Kristin Hannah has done it again'

©2024 Kristin Hannah (P)2024 Macmillan Publishers International Limited
Best of 2024 Coming of Age Historical Fiction Medical War & Military Women's Fiction Heartfelt Inspiring Tear-jerking Emotionally Gripping Thought-Provoking

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Another stunning book

Gosh Kristin’s stories have a way of pulling you in and taking a hold of you. Once started these stories takeover your existence and stay with you for a long time. Such appreciation for the women of Vietnam. The words were so descriptive like you were there in the moment with all characters. The narration was perfection also.

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Wow!

How have I never heard anything like this before? The Vietnam War from the perspective of women is so powerful. Every time someone told them there were no women in Vietnam I found myself feeling so angry. When I was a child I remember my parents telling me that people who served in this war didn’t come home quite right. This book shows why.

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Incredible read

Loved this from start to finish. Lifted the lid on something that so many experienced but often never spoken about.

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I’m so surprised how much I love this book

We read this book for our book club and I was really disinterested reading the blurb/synopsis, however I am so glad I got the opportunity to read this as the story is INCREDIBLE, moving, heart wrenching, a roller coaster of emotions that made me gasp out loud multiple times! If you’re looking for a total curve ball of a read, this is it. LOVED IT

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Absolutely Brilliant

Loved everything about this audiobook. Do yourself a favour and add it to your must read ASAP list.

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You need this book

This was so unexpectedly amazing! I knew so little about the women in Vietnam and how they were treated after returning. An incredible story of courage and healing that speaks for so many! So well written and narrated without fault
I lived the author’s note at the end. Thank you

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loved it

Authentic, gripping, harrowing at times. the power of women supporting women. facing the horror of Vietnam and return home.

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Fantastic eye opener

So well written and read. This story is so well written and helps is all understand what really happened in Vietnam. I’m here now enjoying a holiday so it’s very special. Thanks

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The Women

I revelled on the depth of the experience of Vietnam War from the perspective of a nurse in this book. The war description used was coherent detailed, and was like anot h er character on the novel. I loved the fearlesness of the main character Franky and the endearing cast of well developed side characters filled.I was saddened, by the world that did her and fer colleagues wrong. This made me feel for today real women they stood for.

Th novel had compelling engafing narrative that gripped one quickly. Perhaps, all characters were a bit larger than life affluent and beautiful, but, that balanced the grit and depth of the historical basis on which it was set.

I learnt so much more than documentaries and facts and figures, as this book let me walk in their shoes. I got to understand why the impactt Aussie Vietnam Vets was so bad. Congratulated and welcomed back way too late, psychologically untreated for way too long and considered an inconvenient truth for too long. I understand my late uncle-in-law way more now, who served on Vietnam, now. Sadly a bit late, but grateful that I can now.

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‘Lest we forget’

This book brought back memories of my own peripheral involvement in the Vietnam War-of being part of a ‘group of three’ young men, all part of the lottery that was the draft for 18 year old men in Australia. I was the one who didn’t get picked. The other two did. They came home different people-one frustrated by spending their time behind a desk in Saigon. The other traumatised by their role as a ‘tunnel rat’, chosen because they had an interest in electronics & telecommunications. This book brought back memories of a generation who took sides in a war fought, both at home & abroad-and the stark reminder of the forgotten part of that generation-the women-also involved-but overlooked-& unremembered. My thanks to the 250,000 who voted for this book in the 2024 Goodreads Awards- that brought this book to my attention. From a grateful listener. Don’t miss it.

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