Kristin Hannah's Firefly Lane is a coming of age novel about a generation of women who were both blessed & cursed by their choices It is 1974 & the summer of love is finally drawing to a close The flower children are starting to realize that you cannot survive on peace & love alone Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the secondary school social food chain Then to her amazement the coolest girl in the world' Tully Hart
- the girl all the boys want to know
- moves in across the street & wants to be her best friend Tully & Kate became inseparable & by summer's end they made a pact to be best friends forever' For thirty years Tully & Kate buoy each other through life weathering the storms of friendship jealousy anger hurt & resentment Tully will follow her ambition to find fame & success Kate knows that all she wants is to fall in love & have a family What she doesn't know is how being a wife & 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 Firefly Lane is a book for every woman who knows that her best friend is the only person who really truly knows her & it is a book she will never forget