Firefly Lane-萤火虫小巷

作者：Kristin Hannah

书名：Firefly Lane《萤火虫小巷》

中文简介：一个是万人迷叛逆有个性的女生Tully，一个是平庸但家庭幸福胆怯的乖乖女Kate。因为彼此的孤独走到一起。两个女孩截然不同的性格带来着戏剧版的碰撞，从事业到感情，一个变成光芒万丈的明星，一个变成家庭主妇。两人的爱情也是截然不同，一个不断吸引着所有人的爱，却爱事业胜过爱情，一个卑微的看着自己爱的人爱上最好的朋友。但用自己的守候换回幸福美满的家庭。从十四岁到四十多岁，她们互相依靠走过人生短暂而漫长的道路，也历经了嫉妒、愤怒、伤害、憎恨，重归于好。

英文简介：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.