Kristin Hannah's bestselling 2008 novel, FIREFLY LANE, was a
sweeping, decades-long exploration of the changeable, tumultuous
but sustaining friendship between two women who came of age during
the 1980s. Now Hannah follows the success of that book with TRUE
COLORS, which will do for sisterhood what FIREFLY LANE did for
women's friendships.

Reared on a horse ranch overlooking the Pacific Ocean and the
Olympic Mountains on Washington State's western coast, the three
Grey girls are united at a young age by the shared loss of their
beloved mother to cancer. Almost immediately, their stoic but
grieving father effectively withdraws from the family, leaving his
bereaved daughters to fend for themselves.

Oldest sister Winona, always the responsible one in the family,
becomes the stand-in maternal figure for her younger sisters,
Aurora and Vivi Ann. Winona, whose mother called her "big boned and
beautiful" (even if Winona herself suspects she's just plain fat),
performs her dedicated role beautifully, helping Aurora and Vivi
Ann grow up into (mostly) happy young women while becoming a
successful lawyer herself. But she harbors deep-seated resentment
toward her father for being emotionally distant at best and
downright cruel at worst, and she remains bitterly but secretly
resentful of Vivi Ann, the baby of the family and her father's
favorite.

Vivi Ann can do no wrong in her father's eyes; she inherited her
mother's beauty and her skill with horses. Vivi Ann endears herself
further to him by caring for her late mother's beloved horse, Clem,
remaining on the ranch and eventually helping him run the
place.

Winona can't stand her father's approval of Vivi Ann, nor can
she tolerate her younger sister's unfailingly optimistic attitude
toward their difficult father. When Vivi Ann gets involved with
Winona's childhood sweetheart, Luke, Winona's jealousy bubbles to
the surface, resulting in decades of misunderstandings and
betrayals. And when Vivi Ann shocks her small community by running
off with a handsome Native American stranger, Vivi Ann's rosy-hued
picture of her narrow-minded father and of life in general will be
sorely tested.

Like FIREFLY LANE, TRUE COLORS is truly the portrait of a
relationship over the course of a lifetime. Beginning in 1979, when
the Grey girls are teenagers, and extending to the present, the
book traces the ways in which sisters can grow apart and come
together again, often for surprising reasons and in unexpected
ways. Readers will particularly enjoy watching how Vivi Ann's son,
a troubled and violent boy who takes after his absent father,
becomes the catalyst for Winona's redemption and the sisters'
eventual reconciliation. As in many families, middle sister Aurora
--- depicted generally as the fashionable "good girl" who marries a
boring and ultimately disappointing man --- seems overlooked at
times during the narrative. Clearly, Hannah's focus is on the
compelling contrasts between Winona and Vivi Ann.

With strong, complex characterizations of these primary
characters, rich descriptions of their breathtakingly beautiful
surroundings and an unfailingly romantic atmosphere, TRUE COLORS is
the kind of novel that will have sisters recognizing themselves and
their relationships in its pages.