![]() ![]() Through more than three decades, the reader watches these girls grow up together and drift apart. The novel starts in the 1970s when the girls are teenagers and follows them all the way to the early 2000s. Firefly Lane and Fly Away are no exceptions.įirefly Lane is about two best friends, Kate and Tully. While her male characters are also written beautifully, her books center women’s experiences and struggles. She investigates relationships between sisters, mothers and daughters, best friends, all fundamentally focusing on women and their experiences with each other, their tensions and jealousy, but also the love that ultimately outweighs everything else. It can be difficult to find writing that renders female bonds in this way. ![]() (We see the good and bad of female friendship depicted, warts and all). Hannah’s work focuses on female relationships in a realistic and frank way. From The Nightingale to The Great Alone, best-selling author Kristen Hannah always manages to make the reader fall in love with her characters, and we really feel like we’re in the thick of things with them. They’re full of twists and emotional scenes that constantly leave you wanting more. Firefly Lane and its sequel Fly Away are those types of books that once you start reading they are impossible to put down the types of books you become so immersed in, that you never want them to end. ![]()
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