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In the summertime of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place in 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 these 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 commences Kristin Hannah’s magnificent novel. Spanning more than three decades and playing out over the ever-changing face of the Pacific Northwest, Firefly Lane is the poignant, powerful story of two women and the friendship that becomes the mainstay of the lives. From the beginning, Tully is desperate to prove her worth to the entire world. Abandoned by her mother young, she longs to be loved unconditionally. She will follow her own blind ambition to New York and around the globe, finding fame and success...and loneliness. All Kate really wants is to fall in love and have children and live an ordinary life. In her own quiet way, Kate is really as driven as Tully. What she doesn’t know is how being truly 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 the other person 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 best test. Firefly Lane is for anyone who ever drank Boone’s Farm apple wine while hearing Abba or Fleetwood Mac. Greater than a coming-of-age novel, it’s the storyline of an generation of women who have been both blessed and cursed by choices. It’s about promises and secrets and betrayals. And ultimately, about the main one one who really, truly knows you - and knows what gets the capacity 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.
