From the New York Times bestselling author of On Mystic Lake comes a powerful novel of love, loss, and the magic of friendship. . . .
St. Martin's Griffin
January 2009
On Sale: January 6, 2009
Featuring: Kate Mularkey; Tully Hart
496 pages ISBN: 0312537077 EAN: 9780312537074 Trade Size (reprint) Add to Wish List
In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted
her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food
chain. Then, to her amazement, the “coolest girl in the
world” moves in across the street and wants to be her
friend. Tully Hart seems to have it all---beauty, brains,
ambition. 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, steeped in
glamour and mystery, but with a secret that is destroying
her. They make a pact to be best friends forever; by
summer’s end they’ve become TullyandKate.
Inseparable.
So begins Kristin Hannah’s magnificent
new novel. 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.
From the beginning, Tully is desperate to
prove her worth to the world. Abandoned by her mother at an
early age, she longs to be loved unconditionally. In the
glittering, big-hair era of the eighties, she looks to men
to fill the void in her soul. But in the buttoned-down
nineties, it is television news that captivates her. She
will follow her own blind ambition to New York and around
the globe, finding fame and success . . . and loneliness.
Kate knows early on that her life will be nothing
special. Throughout college, she pretends to be driven by a
need for success, but all she really wants is to fall in
love and have children and live an ordinary life. In her own
quiet way, Kate is as driven as Tully. What she doesn’t know
is how being a wife and mother will change her . . . how
she’ll lose sight of who she once was, and what she once
wanted. And how much she’ll envy her famous best friend. . .
.
For thirty years, Tully and Kate buoy each other
through life, weathering the storms of
friendship---jealousy, anger, hurt, resentment. They think
they’ve survived it all until a single act of betrayal tears
them apart . . . and puts their courage and friendship to
the ultimate test.
Firefly Lane is for anyone who
ever drank Boone’s Farm apple wine while listening to Abba
or Fleetwood Mac. More than a coming-of-age novel, it’s the
story of a generation of women who were both blessed and
cursed by choices. It’s about promises and secrets and
betrayals. And ultimately, about the one person who really,
truly knows you---and knows what has the power to hurt you .
. . and heal you. Firefly Lane is a story you’ll
never forget . . . one you’ll want to pass on to your best
friend.
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