Firefly Lane
FIREFLY
LANE 
ALSO BY KRISTIN HANNAH
Magic Hour
Comfort and Joy
The Things We Do for Love
Between Sisters
On Mystic Lake
Distant Shores
Summer Island
Angel Falls
The Enchantment
Home Again
If You Believe
Once in Every Life
Waiting for the Moon
When Lightning Strikes
A Handful of Heaven
FIREFLY
LANE 
Kristin Hannah
ST. MARTIN’S PRESS
New York
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
FIREFLY LANE. Copyright © 2008 by Kristin Hannah. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Hannah, Kristin.
Firefly Lane / Kristin Hannah.—1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-36408-3
ISBN-10: 0-312-36408-3
1. Best friends—Fiction. 2. Friendship in adolescence—Fiction.
3. Female friendship—Fiction. 4. Nineteen seventies—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3558.A4763F57 2008
813'.54—dc22
2007040442
First Edition: February 2008
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
This book is dedicated to “us.” The girls.
Friends who see one another through the hard times, big and small,
year in and year out. You know who you are.
Thanks;
To the people who make up so many of my memories:
my father, Laurence; my brother, Kent; my sister, Laura;
my husband, Benjamin; and my son, Tucker.
Wherever we all go in the world,
you are in my heart;
And to my mom, who inspires so many of my novels;
this one most of all.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Thanks go out to:
Marianne McClary, for helping out on the TV and broadcasting stuff. Your expertise was invaluable. Thanks.
Jennifer Enderlin, Jill Marie Landis, Kim Fisk, Andrea Cirillo, and Megan Chance. Each of you helped me find the path of this story. Thanks.
The fabulous team at St. Martin’s Press: Thank you for this opportunity.
The best mirror is an old friend.
—GEORGE HERBERT
FIREFLY
LANE
CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE
PART ONE: THE SEVENTIES
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
PART TWO: THE EIGHTIES
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
PART THREE: THE NINETIES
CHAPTER NINETEEN
CHAPTER TWENTY
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
PART FOUR: THE NEW MILLENNIUM
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN