Firefly Lane
From the multimillion copy bestselling author of The Women, The Nightingale and The Four Winds
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4.4 • 148 Ratings
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- £5.99
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Publisher Description
‘One of the greatest storytellers of our time’ – Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing
Now a number one series on Netflix, Firefly Lane is an unforgettable, poignant and powerful coming of age story spanning more than three decades. It is a story of love, loss and the magic of friendship between two women which forms the basis of their lives.
From the internationally-bestselling author of The Women, Kristin Hannah.
‘Friendships were like marriages in that way. Routines and patterns were poured early and hardened like cement’
It is 1974 and the summer of love is drawing to a close. Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the secondary school social food chain. Then, to her amazement, Tully Hart – the girl all the boys want to know – moves in across the street and wants to be her best friend. Tully and Kate became inseparable and by summer’s end they vow that their friendship will last forever.
For thirty years Tully and Kate buoy each other through life, weathering the storms of friendship, jealousy, anger, hurt and resentment. Tully follows her ambition to find fame and success. Kate knows that all she wants is to fall in love and have a family. What she doesn’t know is how being a wife and a mother will change her.
They think they’ve survived it all until a single act of betrayal tears them apart. But when tragedy strikes, can the bonds of friendship survive? Or is it the one hurdle that even a lifelong friendship cannot overcome?
Continue Firefly Lane's emotional journey with the sequel Fly Away.
Praise for Kristin Hannah:
‘Moving and unforgettable’ – Christy Lefteri, bestselling author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo
‘A classic storyteller’ – Matt Haig, bestselling author of The Midnight Library
'Stuns with sacrifice. Uplifts with heroism' – Bonnie Garmus, bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry
‘A rich, compelling novel of love, sacrifice and survival’ – Kate Morton, bestselling author of Homecoming
‘A masterclass . . . This is a story that will stay with me for a long, long time’ – Karen Swan, bestselling author of The Last Summer
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Hannah (On Mystic Lake) goes a little too far into Lifetime movie territory in her latest, an epic exploration of the complicated terrain between best friends one who chooses marriage and motherhood while the other opts for career and celebrity. The adventures of poor, ambitious Tully Hart and middle-class romantic Kate Mularkey begin in the 1970s, but don't really get moving until about halfway into the book, when Tully, who claws her way to the heights of broadcast journalism, discovers it's lonely at the top, and Katie, a stay-at-home Seattle housewife, forgets what it's like to be a rebellious teen. What holds the overlong narrative together is the appealing nature of Tully and Katie's devotion to one another even as they are repeatedly tested by jealousy and ambition. Katie's husband, Johnny, is smitten with Tully, and Tully, who is abandoned by her own booze-and-drug-addled mother, relishes the adoration from Katie's daughter, Marah. Hannah takes the easy way out with an over-the-top tear-jerker ending, though her upbeat message of the power of friendship and family will, for some readers, trump even the most contrived plot twists.
Customer Reviews
Staggeringly good
A wonderful story which spans the decades of a friendship which surmounts all obstacles.