Fly Away
Hannah’s Firefly Lane (2008), which centered on best-friends-forever Tully Hart and Kate Mularkey, is arguably her most popular work. Her follow-up gives readers an idea of what life is like for Tully and Kate’s daughter Marah in the wake of Kate’s death from cancer. It’s not a pretty picture. Tully, who walked away from her successful talk show after Kate got sick, finds that her career isn’t waiting for her when she is ready to come back. Overwhelmed by grief and shunned by Johnny, Kate’s grieving husband who wants Tully to stay away from him and Kate’s children, Tully turns to prescription drugs and alcohol. Teenage Marah, once popular and brash, retreats into herself. Then hope comes from the most unlikely of sources: Tully’s wayward mother, finally sober and now, on the cusp of 70, possibly ready to be the mother Tully has always craved. Readers will be reaching for tissues as they watch the characters they grew to love in Firefly Lane struggle to make peace with Kate’s death and find happiness and love.      HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: So popular is Firefly Lane that Hannah’s highly anticipated sequel will be launched with a 500,000 print run, a national author tour, and an enormous promotional campaign. --Kristine Huntley