The #1 New York Times bestseller―now a #1 Netflix series!

 

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.

 

Firefly Lane is for anyone who ever drank Boone's Farm apple wine while listening to Abba or Fleetwood Mac. More than a coming-of-age novel, it's the story of a generation of women who were both blessed and cursed by choices. It's about promises and secrets and betrayals. And ultimately, about the one person who really, truly knows you---and knows what has the power to hurt you . . . and heal you. Firefly Lane is a story you'll never forget . . . one you'll want to pass on to your best friend.
 

她知道，只要說我需要你，好朋友就永遠會在。

 

塔莉，美麗聰明，卻行為叛逆，總是人們目光的焦點，但沒有人知道，她一直活在被母親拋棄的陰影中，更害怕一直照顧她的外婆撒手人寰，讓她徹底孤單。她渴望歸屬感、渴望有人能無條件愛她。

 

凱蒂，一個看起來中規中矩的乖乖女，有着幸福溫馨的家庭，性格溫順可愛，只是乖巧的外表之下，也充斥着無法消解的束縛感，偶爾渴望掙脫。

 

14歲那年，兩個完全不同的女孩，在沒有螢火蟲的「螢火蟲小巷」溫暖相遇，從此人生有了巨大轉變。

 

凱蒂將真正的愛帶給了塔莉，讓她開始懂得付出，了解家是什麼感覺；而塔莉豐富了凱蒂的人生，讓她看到了生命的各種精彩。

 

從14歲到40多歲，她們互相依靠走過人生短暫而漫長的道路，也歷經了嫉妒、憤怒、傷害、憎恨，最終重歸於好。

 

這是個關於愛、成長與忠誠的故事，也讓你不禁開始檢視人生最重要的事物究竟是什麼。

——中文簡介摘自百花洲文藝出版社出版《螢火蟲小巷》