Firefly Lane
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4.4 • 43 Ratings
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
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Firefly Lane is an unforgettable coming of age story, by the New York Times number one bestseller Kristin Hannah.
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?
PRAISE FOR FIREFLY LANE
'Hannah's latest is a moving and realistic portrait of a complex and enduring friendship.' Booklist
'Not since Iris Dart's Beaches, twenty years ago, has there been a story of friendship that endures everything, from girlhood dramas to bitter betrayal, to be the touchstone in two women's lives. In Firefly Lane, Kristin Hannah creates the most poignant of reunions and an unforgettable story of loyalty and love.' Jacquelyn Mitchard
'No one writes more insightfully about women's friendships with all of their messy wonder, humor, pain and complexity like Kristin Hannah. She's a marvel.' Susan Elizabeth Phillips
'(An)upbeat message of the power of friendship and family.' Publishers Weekly
'A tearjerker that is sure to please the author's many fans.' Library Journal
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
From laughter to tears—and everything in between—this heartfelt novel delivers the full experience of a truly great friendship. The funky 1970s are in full swing the summer that teenagers Kate and Tully become neighbours and inseparable best friends. Their bond holds strong into adulthood, as Kate settles into domestic life while Tully chases her dream of becoming a TV news star. Both women wrestle with the pressures, choices and lingering inequities of post-women’s-liberation America. We loved bestselling author Kristin Hannah’s vivid descriptions of the fashion, music and wild hair of each decade. Firefly Lane is like a Gen X update of Iris Rainer Dart’s classic Beaches, complete with dramatic tests of emotional strength when life throws Hannah’s characters some major curveballs. You might want to keep some tissues close by—or better yet, your phone, so you can reach out to your own Kate or Tully.
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.
