In a recent online author visit, Kristin Hannah talked about how her book, Firefly Lane, is being made into a series so I wanted to reread it having read it a dozen years ago. It was almost like a new book to me as I had forgotten all but the beginning where two very different young women became lifelong friends. Firefly Lane in a town somewhere in Washington state was where Tully, the often-left-behind daughter of a drug addict, and Katie, the much-loved daughter in a nurturing family, met.
Once the bond is forged, the girls are unseparable through high school, college, and even on the first job. Tully has an ambition to become the next Jessica Savitch, and she wants Katie alongside her. Katie has less of an interest in the news business but she finds herself following along. Eventually Katie tries a differenct direction away from Tully toward her own dreams but the women remain best friends.
The novel covers several decades in the lives of these two women and should make an excellent series. Each woman encounters struggles in their life and need their best friend right beside them to get through whatever situation occurs.
Kristin Hannah has long been one of my favorite writers of women's fiction. A former lawyer turned writer, she lives with her family in the Pacific Northwest. Her novel The Nightingale, about two sisters during World War II, was voted a best book of the year by Amazon, Buzzfeed, Library Journal, and The Wall Street Journal in 2015. It it currently being made into a movie with the Fanning sisters.
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