Kate knows early on that her life will be nothing special. She will follow her own blind ambition to New York and around the globe, finding fame and success. But in the buttoned-down nineties, it is television news that captivates her. In the glittering, big-hair era of the eighties, she looks to men to fill the void in her soul. Abandoned by her mother at an early age, she longs to be loved unconditionally. Spanning more than three decades and playing out across the ever-changing face of the Pacific Northwest, Firefly Lane is the poignant, powerful story of two women and the friendship that becomes the bulkhead of their lives.įrom the beginning, Tully is desperate to prove her worth to the world. So begins Kristin Hannah’s magnificent new novel.

They make a pact to be best friends forever by summer’s end they’ve become TullyandKate. Inseparable. Tully, steeped in glamour and mystery, but with a secret that is destroying her. On the surface they are as opposite as two people can be: Kate, doomed to be forever uncool, with a loving family who mortifies her at every turn. Tully Hart seems to have it all-beauty, brains, ambition. Then, to her amazement, the “coolest girl in the world” moves in across the street and wants to be her friend. In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. Of course, she’s always such a great writer. Knowing her as an epic historical fiction storyteller, I was curious about how she approaches a more women’s fiction type of story.Īnd I liked it enough. I decided to read Firefly Lane, an older novel of hers, after I saw the Netflix trailer.

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