BOOK REVIEWS Courtesy of Beaverdale Books
‘Firefly Lane’
By Kristin Hannah
St. Martins Press
Pub Date: 1/1/09
$14.95
513 pp
The time is 1974. The coolest girl has just moved in across the street from Kate, and she wants to be Kate’s friend.
They enjoy each other’s company that summer and vow to remain best friends forever. Thus begins the Tully and Kate saga. From that point on, they were inseparable.
Kristin Hannah’s story is a heart-wrenching saga of two friends who through the years have dealt with jealously, anger, resentment and hurt. Yet they have remained friends for 30 years. Their story is one you don’t want to put down. They have weathered the storms of friendship until one thing happens that may destroy it all. This book is a page-turner to say the least. I could not stop reading until I found out if everything turned out OK for these two friends.
Don’t be surprised if you find yourself inside the pages of their lives because you have come to care for them so much. This is a book that is meant to be on your bookshelves to be read again and again and to know the true strength and loyalty of friendship.
As tragedy looms over the end of the story, one can’t help but realize how important true friendship really is. So, pull up a cozy chair and a hot cup of coffee and be prepared to read “Firefly Lane” from cover to cover. CV —Michelle Pritchard
