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Kate’s 2¢: “Firefly Lane” by Christian Hannah
“Firefly Lane” by Christian Hannah
I found the ending of this story very difficult to read. It hit close to home in a very personal way. It has started me thinking that maybe I, too, should detail some of the escapades my bff and I had.
I downloaded this story from BookShare. The synthesized voice read page numbers, some punctuation, dashes, and some other distracting composition features, but the well crafted narrative was understandable.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Website www.kristinhannah.com Kristin Hannah was born in California. After graduating with a degree in communication from the University of Washington, Hannah worked at an advertising agency in Seattle. She graduated from the University of Puget Sound law school and practiced law in Seattle before becoming a full-time writer. Hannah wrote her first novel with her mother, who was dying of cancer at the time; the book was never published.[2]
Hannah’s best-selling work, The Nightingale, has sold over 4.5 million copies worldwide and has been published in 45 languages.[3][4]
Hannah lives on Bainbridge Island, Washington,[5] with her husband and their son.
From BookShare:
Synopsis
In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social
food chain. Then, to her amazement, the “coolest girl in the world” moves in across the street and wants to be her friend. Tully Hart seems to have it all—beauty, brains, ambition. On the surface they are as opposite as two people can be: Kate, doomed to be forever uncool, with a loving family who mortifies her at every turn. Tully, steeped in glamour and mystery, but with a secret that is destroying her. They make a pact to be best friends forever; by summer’s end they’ve become TullyandKate. Inseparable. So begins Kristin Hannah’s magnificent new novel. Spanning more than three decades and playing out across the ever-changing face of the Pacific Northwest, Firefly Lane is the poignant, powerful story of two women and the friendship that becomes the bulkhead of their lives. From the beginning, Tully is desperate to prove her worth to the world. Abandoned by her mother at an early age, she longs to be loved unconditionally. In the glittering, big-hair era of the eighties, she looks to men to fill the void in her soul. But in the buttoned-down nineties, it is television news that captivates her. She will follow her own blind ambition to New York and around the globe, finding fame and success . . . and loneliness. Kate knows early on that her life will be nothing special. Throughout college, she pretends to be driven by a need for success, but all she really wants is to fall in love and have children and live an ordinary life. In her own quiet way, Kate is as driven as Tully. What she doesn’t know is how being a wife and mother will change her . . . how she’ll lose sight of who she once was, and what she once wanted. And how much she’ll envy her famous best friend. . . . For thirty years, Tully and Kate buoy each other through life, weathering the storms of friendship—jealousy, anger, hurt, resentment. They think they’ve survived it all until a single act of betrayal tears them apart . . . and puts their courage and friendship to the ultimate test.
Copyright:
2008
Book Details
Book Quality:
Excellent
Book Size:
472 Pages
Publisher:
N/A
Date of Addition:
07/07/08
Copyrighted By:
Kristin Hannah
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Romance, Literature and Fiction
Submitted By:
solstice singer
Proofread By:
Pam Quinn
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Kate’s 2¢: “Cul-de-sac” by Joy Fielding
With five homes around the deadend street, there are many characters to be introduced and, eventually, their dark, little secrets emerge. This is the second book I’ve read recently that places the story in a cul-de-sac, “The New Neighbor” by Karen Prevland.
Take away:
–To an outsider, the street looks essentially the same. A tree lined horseshoe shaped cul-de-sac containing five identical two story homes in a variety of pastel shades, each with a double car attached garage on the left. But, of course, what lurks behind closed doors is terrifying.
–the problem with lying, is that you had to be ready with a quick follow-up.
–I can’t let that fear define my life any longer.
–It appears to be such a peaceful street.
Lauren Fortgang did a good job of reading this story for the NLS.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born in Toronto, Ontario, she graduated from the University of Toronto in 1966, with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature. As Joy Tepperman, she had a brief acting career, appearing in the film Winter Kept Us Warm (1965) and in an episode of Gunsmoke. She later changed her last name to Fielding (after Henry Fielding) and began writing novels.
Fielding is also the screenwriter of the television film Golden Will: The Silken Laumann Story.
In the 1980s, she was also a regular contributor of book reviews to Jack Farr’s CBC Radio program The Radio Show.
Personal[edit]
At the age of 8, Tepperman wrote her first story and sent it into a local magazine, and at age 12 sent in her first TV script, however both were rejected. She had a brief acting career, eventually giving it up to write full-time in 1972.[1] She has published 30 novels and 1 Novella (as of September 2022), two of which were converted into film. Fielding’s process of having an idea to the point the novel is finished generally takes a year, the writing itself taking four to eight months.[2]
Fielding sets most of her novels in American cities such as Boston and Chicago. She has said that she prefers to set her novels in “big American cities, [as the] landscape seems best for [her] themes of urban alienation and loss of identity.”[2]
Fielding is a Canadian citizen. Her husband is noted Toronto attorney, Warren Seyffert.[3][4] They have two daughters, Annie and Shannon,[5] and own property in Toronto, Ontario, as well as Palm Beach, Florida.[2]
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
Cul-de-sac DB104565
Fielding, Joy. Reading time: 10 hours, 44 minutes.
Read by Lauren Fortgang.
Suspense Fiction
Psychological Fiction
The residents of a cul-de-sac in Palm Beach Gardens hide secrets. Maggie and husband Craig left their California home for a new life in Florida. The troubled grandson of elderly widow Julia has just moved in. Even more secrets are hidden–and someone will die. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2021.
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