There are people who are suspicious of slick marketing and packaging of some of the elements that predominate in this story - female friendships, romantic intricacies, marriage and divorce, pregnancy and motherhood, and who have learned to bump books like this into a firmly unserious subcategory. They are there for each other in times good and bad, in loss and in table-dancing, in sharing their tales of both disastrous boyfriends and promising ones. There is a man named Johnny who is important to both of them, who winds up being Kate's husband. Tully's life is more focused on her career (as a television talk-show host) Kate's life, although she is a TV producer, is more focused on domesticity (she ultimately has a teenage daughter).

Much of the story, in broad strokes, is familiar: Tully is the rebellious and sparkling one with a past that is difficult in more visible and explicit ways Kate is the quieter and more cautious one with a past that is difficult in less obvious ways. Katherine Heigl and Sarah Chalke play Tully and Kate, two friends who spend decades supporting each other in Firefly Lane.Īs of this writing, as its Netflix adaptation is about to premiere, the 2008 Kristin Hannah novel Firefly Lane sits at #1 in the Amazon Kindle Store category called 'Women's Sagas.' And indeed, it is written and presented as a women's saga: the friendship of Kate and Tully, played as adults by Sarah Chalke and Katherine Heigl, as observed over several decades, beginning when they're teenagers and continuing into their forties (at least in these ten episodes).

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