Firefly Lane: A Novel
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Last update: 01-29-2026
Product details
- ASIN : B000V77082
- Publisher : St. Martin's Press
- Accessibility :
- Publication date : February 5, 2008
- Edition : 1st
- Language : English
- File size : 6.3 MB
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 498 pages
- ISBN-13 : 978-1429927840
- Page Flip : Enabled
- Book 1 of 2 : Firefly Lane
- Best Sellers Rank:#23 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- Women's Sagas
- Women's Friendship Fiction
- Women's Romance Fiction
- Customer Reviews:4.64.6 out of 5 stars(56,978)
Top reviews from the United States
- ArabellaA Friendship Forever!“Firefly Lane” is another excellent read from Kristin Hannah. This tells the story of 2 girls who become best friends for life and how their lives unfold. They are teenagers when their friendship begins and they each have something in their lives that precludes their being the most popular girl in school. They plan their lives together and take the same majors in college. Ultimately their lives go in different directions but their friendship remains strong. I loved the book, and I always enjoy works by Kristin Hannah.
- Lisa PottgenIf you have ever had a best friend...This is by far, one of the hardest reviews I have ever had to write. I say this because by the end, I was just so emotionally invested in the story, in the words on the page. I had actually requested the sequel, Fly Away, from the publisher for review, and then realized it was a sequel and bought the first for Kindle because I hate reading books out of order.
We have all been the awkward, gawky teenager at least at one time in our lives. That would be Kate. Tully is the girl that we all always wanted to be, based on what we could see on the outside. She seemed strong, confident, and everyone liked her. But that was just the exterior, the shell. It was no reflection of who she was inside and what she was hiding. Because Tully had a secret. She had been broken.
The story of friendship in this book resonated so strongly to me. The movie, Beaches, with Bette Midler has long been one of my favorite films, and among the only "chick flicks" I will readily admit to liking.
I don't generally read this type of book. I tend to stay in the realm of fantasy because sometimes reality can be raw with broken edges and it can make you cry. In that regard, this book was true to form and did not disappoint. I cried like a blubbering baby.
Because, you see, I had a best friend. I met her when I was 13 years old. Just like in the book, we were almost polar opposites. But we melded together and we were just like Tully and Kate, in many ways. We now live nearly 2000 miles apart, but the bond is still there and we are always there for each other when we needed one another.
Ms. Hannah is an absolutely beautifully gifted storyteller and I cannot believe that I had not picked up one of her books before now. Firefly Lane will touch your heart. The story is beautifully crafted and the world the characters are painted in is done so well, you will feel as though you are riding down the hill with them with your hands stretched out, feeling like you are flying. You will feel as though you are sitting on the beach holding each other's hands, holding back the tears.
More than all of that, though, this story has a very clear message. It would be really hard for me to get into the details of that message without giving the story away, but please, if you read the book, make sure you read the postscript as well and heed the message therein. The story touches on issues that have touched my family. Maybe that makes it more real for me, harder for me to feel anything but empowered by this story, but there it is just the same.
best friend. I met her when I was 13 years old. Just like in the book, we were almost polar opposites. But we melded together and we were just like Tully and Kate, in many ways. We now live nearly 2000 miles apart, but the bond is still there and we are always there for each other when we needed one another.
Ms. Hannah is an absolutely beautifully gifted storyteller and I cannot believe that I had not picked up one of her books before now. Firefly Lane will touch your heart. The story is beautifully crafted and the world the characters are painted in is done so well, you will feel as though you are riding down the hill with them with your hands stretched out, feeling like you are flying. You will feel as though you are sitting on the beach holding each other's hands, holding back the tears.
More than all of that, though, this story has a very clear message. It would be really hard for me to get into the details of that message without giving the story away, but please, if you read the book, make sure you read the postscript as well and heed the message therein. The story touches on issues that have touched my family. Maybe that makes it more real for me, harder for me to feel anything but empowered by this story, but there it is just the same. - Sheri DenkensohnVery enjoyable and realisticI love the characters, the sights and smells and everything about it. You can feel them and relate to them. Including the music of the times, the hairstyles, the relationships of teen and college years, all so relatable. Jealousies, finding what is really love and what that means, what success gives and doesn't and what it means are all relevant topics. Life is a series of chapters and adventures. If you can find true love like Katie and Johnny and a forever friend like Tully and Katie, that is what sticks to you in life. Only as you age do you realize the true impact of those relationships. A great book that captures much of life's lessons.
- Texas88FanEmotional journey of lifetime friendship between "sisters"This is a truly wonderful book. It is simultaneously a heartwarming and heartbreaking story of two women who meet by chance as young girls. They seem complete opposites, and both are "outcasts"; yet become the closest of friends, ultimately "sisters".
This may be her best book since Nightingale, and I've read many of her books. There are insufficient superlatives to describe this book.
SADLY, the Netflix series "based on" this book is a jumbled mess of time jumps sharing character names with the book; but little else. The character arcs, the narrative, the events; in short, nothing like the book.