Her books have a way of creeping into people’s hearts and feelings as they navigate the emotional ups and down with the characters.Įlise Cooper: How did you get the idea for writing these books? Readers will be touched greatly, something no TV series can encompass. A tragic accident has Tully facing her past and her pain, as she has visions of her friend, and must decide whether or not life is worth living. Nothing and no one seem to matter to her. Her father, Johnny, strives to hold the family together, but even with his best efforts, Marah becomes unreachable. After not able to have Kate around, her family, and her best friend, must navigate their own lives, wondering how they can get along without Kate’s presence. The sequel novel, Fly Away, shows how Kate was the glue that held everyone together. In a sense, Kate’s family adopted Tully and showed her a loving environment, something Tully did not have with her own mom known as Dorothy “Cloud” who was never there for her daughter. Tully chooses to make her career her life’s one true love, while Kate is content to marry, have children, and be a stay-at-home mom, a reflection of her own family as she was growing up. As they grow to adulthood, they make different choices in life. But these two become best friends forever, known as TullyandKate. Tully is the “cool girl” with ambition, brains, and beauty. Kate has always been in Tully’s shadow, being the shy girl with thick glasses who is lonely and uncool. Throughout both books, spanning a period of about thirty years, two girls, Kate Mularkey and Tully Hart, different as day and night, have weathered the storm of friendship, jealousy, anger, hurt, and resentment. Hannah has a knack for a descriptive writing style that draws out the characters through a storyline that is heart-warming and heart-wrenching. Although the Netflix series is good, those who have not read Hannah’s books are missing the essence of the stories. But they have come back into relevance after Netflix adapted these novels for a TV series. Firefly Lane and its sequel Fly Away, by Kristin Hannah, were written over a decade ago.
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