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Home Again: A Novel Paperback – June 26, 2012
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“A tender, beautifully told story of emotional growth, forgiveness [and] the possibility of miracles.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Madelaine Hillyard is a world-famous heart surgeon at the top of her game. Her personal life is far less successful. A loving but overworked single mom, she is constantly at odds with her teenage daughter. At sixteen, Lina is confused, angry, and fast becoming a stranger to her mother—a rebel desperate to find the father who walked away before she was born. Complicating matters for Madelaine are the vastly different DeMarco brothers: While priest Francis DeMarco is always ready to lend a helping hand, his brother, Angel, long ago took on the role of bad boy. Years earlier Angel abandoned Madelaine—and fatherhood—to go in search of fame and fortune. His departure left Madelaine devastated, but now he reappears and seeks help from the very people he betrayed—as a patient in dire need.
- Print length416 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherBallantine Books
- Publication dateJune 26, 2012
- Dimensions5.2 x 0.93 x 7.92 inches
- ISBN-100345530829
- ISBN-13978-0345530820
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He was sleeping. Thank God.
She stood in the doorway, uncertain for a second as to her best course of action. She could turn around and leave right now or she could wake him up and talk to him. Or she could sit down beside him and look at him. Just look.
Quietly she closed the door shut behind her. Weak autumn sunlight shone through the small window, giving the room a respite from the cold impersonality of fluorescent lighting. The narrow, metal-framed bed cut the room in half.
He lay as motionless as death, the washed-out gray sheeting tucked haphazardly across his chest. Dark brown hair lay in a tangled heap against the white cotton of the pillow. His chiseled face looked sunken and too thin; his lips were pale. A stubbly growth of black beard shadowed his triangular jaw and darkened his upper lip.
Even so, he was so handsome he took her breath away.
She sank unsteadily to the chair. For a second she couldn't think about his illness or what was at stake here. All she could think about was the past and how much she'd loved this man.
He had swept her, laughing, into a whole new world. A world of lights and possibility and hope, a place where rules and responsibility didn't exist. She'd clung to him, giggling, believing, following wherever he led, so proud that hers was the hand he wanted to hold. She'd fallen in love with him in the wild, abandoned way that only teenagers could. Made excuses during the day to be together, sneaking from her father's austere house in the middle of the night. It was the first time she'd ever disobeyed her father, and it had made her feel recklessly confident.
With the distance of so many years, she knew that she'd never really fallen in love with him, not in the way that lasts. She'd been consumed by his brushfire passion, transformed by him.
There had been that night, under the old oak tree at Carrington Park....
They'd been lying in the grass, staring up at the night sky, wishing on stars, sharing their dreams, holding each other. But she'd known it was time to go home. Her father would be getting back from his business trip.
She pulled away from him, staring down the long, darkened street. The thought of leaving him, returning to that cold house and her even colder father, made her feel almost sick with desperation. "I don't want to go back...." She realized instantly that she'd said too much. She held her breath, waiting for Angel to call her silly or stupid or childish--all the words her father hurled at her with such regularity.
But he didn't. He touched her cheek, gently turned her face to his. "Don't. Stay with me. We could run away...raise a family...be a family...." Madelaine had never known what it could feel like to love someone until that moment. The emotion swept through her, filling her soul with heat until, suddenly, she was laughing, and then she was crying. "I love you, Angel."
Ah...it had been so painfully sweet...
He pulled her into his arms, held her so tightly, she couldn't breathe. Together they dropped to their knees in the spongy grass. She felt his hands on her, stroking her hair, her back, her hips. And then he was kissing her, tasting her tears, claiming her so completely with his mouth that she felt dizzy.
At last he drew back and stared down at her. There was an intensity in his eyes that stole her breath, made her heart beat wildly. "I love you, Madelaine. I don't...I mean, I've never..." Tears squeezed past his eyelashes and he started to wipe them away.
She stopped his hand. "Don't be afraid," she whispered.
He gave her a trembling smile. In that instant she understood so much about him, about the way he was. He went about swaggering and blustering and acting like the rebel, but on the inside he was just like her. Scared and confused and lonely. He didn't believe in himself, didn't think he was good, but he was--she believed in him enough for both of them. And he loved her like no one had ever loved her before....
Such powerful, powerful words: I love you...
After that, she'd told him everything, opened her heart and soul to him and let him become a part of her. Without him, she hadn't thought she could live.
What if he could do that to her again?
She forced herself to remember the other things, the other moments, letting the pain wash through her in a cold, cleansing sweep.
She'd thought she'd forgiven him for what he'd done to her--for leaving her without so much as a good-bye. Honestly, truly, she thought she had. Time and again she'd replayed the sequence of events in her head. She told herself she didn't blame Angel for running out on her. She told herself that seventeen was young, so young, and with each advancing year of her life, it felt younger still. She told herself it had been for the best, that they never would have made it, that they would have ruined each other's lives.
Yes, she'd told herself a lot of things, but now, in this second, staring down at him, she recognized the truth at last. They were lies, all of them lies. Pretty foil paper on a dark, ugly gift.
She hadn't forgiven him. How could she?
He'd killed a part of her that summer, a part he'd created and nurtured and claimed to love. A part she'd never gotten back.
Product details
- Publisher : Ballantine Books (June 26, 2012)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 416 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0345530829
- ISBN-13 : 978-0345530820
- Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.2 x 0.93 x 7.92 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #16,585 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #748 in Contemporary Women Fiction
- #791 in Women's Domestic Life Fiction
- #4,575 in Contemporary Romance (Books)
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About the author
Kristin Hannah is the award-winning and bestselling author of more than 20 novels. Her newest novel, The Women, about the nurses who served in the Vietnam war, will be released on February 6, 2024.
The Four Winds was published in February of 2021 and immediately hit #1 on the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Indie bookstore's bestseller lists. Additionally, it was selected as a book club pick by the both Today Show and The Book Of the Month club, which named it the best book of 2021.
In 2018, The Great Alone became an instant New York Times #1 bestseller and was named the Best Historical Novel of the Year by Goodreads.
In 2015, The Nightingale became an international blockbuster and was Goodreads Best Historical fiction novel for 2015 and won the coveted People's Choice award for best fiction in the same year. It was named a Best Book of the Year by Amazon, iTunes, Buzzfeed, the Wall Street Journal, Paste, and The Week.
The Nightingale is currently in pre-production at Tri Star. Firefly Lane, her beloved novel about two best friends, was the #1 Netflix series around the world, in the week it came out. The popular tv show stars Katherine Heigl and Sarah Chalke.
A former attorney, Kristin lives in the Pacific Northwest.
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Customers find the book's pacing inconsistent. They mention it's slow at times, frustrating, and predictable. Some readers also mention the book is repetitive and clichéd.
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- Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2025Yes, at times it was a little hokey and at times you knew what was coming but it brought tears to my eyes and was at times brilliant. A love story wrapped in four people’s lives intertwined over the years. A handsome, selfish movie star, a mom and cardiologist, a rebellious teenage girl all bound together by a priest with human frailty. Written with great thought of character and accurate medical details. Fabulous book you won’t want to stop reading.
- Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2024Kristin Hannah has done it again 🥹🥹
Home Again is a poignant tale of love, loss, and second chances. The story centers around Madeline, a brilliant young woman with a strict and controlling father who has her life planned out to the minutest detail. However, everything changes when Maddie girl falls in love with Angel, a boy her father deems unworthy.
When Madeline finds herself pregnant, her father insists on an abortion. Torn between her father's expectations and her own desires, Maddie initially agrees but ultimately cannot go through with it. She decides to keep the baby, a decision that leads to her being disowned by her father. Determined to provide a good life for her child, Maddie works tirelessly and rises through the ranks to become one of Seattle's top cardiologists.
Years later, Angel reappears in Madeline’s life, this time as a patient with severe heart issues. Unbeknownst to him, the cardiologist who will be treating him is the woman he once abandoned. As they navigate this unexpected reunion, both Madeline and Angel are forced to confront their past choices and the lingering feelings between them. The novel explores themes of regret, failure, abandonment, triumph, and ultimately, forgiveness.
A must read! ♥️📚
- Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2025A little predictable, cried, laughed, very sad, but a great ending. If only the bad things in life could take a positive turn as this book.
- Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2024It was an interesting story, but parts of the book were frustrating. Like the daughter was a real brat! Still good, though.
- Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2025This author never disappoints. Great story. Good book to start off the year. If you are looking for a new book, you have to read this.
- Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2024Always like this author so enjoyed this book.
- Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2024This has been such a delightful story that is full of heartache, romance, and the joy of a person committed to changing his life for the better. It also gives us a good education about heart transplants and the importance of living well while paying attention to clean living. A remarkable story that could leave out some of the language.
- Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2024I loved this book!! The emotions and characters were great! It was hard to put the book down. A must read!!!
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- Nancy-Lou AteahReviewed in Canada on November 6, 2024
5.0 out of 5 stars Great author.
The book held my interest.
- ROSANA S.Reviewed in Brazil on October 28, 2021
5.0 out of 5 stars WONDERFUL
What can i say: it was a roller-coaster of emotions. The 4 main characters of this book, Madelaine, Angel, their daughter Angelina (Lina) and his brother Francis were pictured in such deep emotional way that we could feel each one of their feelings, the hurt, the love, the hope... Francis, a catholic priest and Madelaine's best friend and Lina's surrogate daddy has always been secretly in love with Madelaine. He has been her safe harbor for 16 yes. Angel, the Hollywood bad boy who turned his back on Mad when she told him she was pregnant has just suffered his third severe heart attack and his life is ending, unless his doctors find him a perfect match for a heart transplant. And then, an accident, a brain dead patient and a miracle. It's breathtakingly written and i would highly recommend.
- brenda harveyReviewed in the United Kingdom on March 18, 2023
5.0 out of 5 stars Another book from this autherb
This book was a wonderful lovely story from start to finish
- Gloria WalshReviewed in Australia on July 6, 2023
5.0 out of 5 stars Book
Nothing great read.
- Loretta CornishReviewed in Canada on October 2, 2024
5.0 out of 5 stars Good read
It is a good story ,with reading and I like her books.