Fly Away

Once a long time ago I walked down a night-darkened road called Firefly Lane all alone on the worst night of my life and I found a kindred spirit That was our beginning More than thirty years ago TullyandKate You and me against the world Best friends forever But stories end dont they You lose the people you love and you have to find a way to go on Tully Hart has always been larger than life a woman fueled by big dreams and driven by memories of a painful past She thinks she can overcome anything until her best friend Kate Ryan dies Tully tries to fulfill her deathbed promise to Kate---to be there for Kates children---but Tully knows nothing about family or motherhood or taking care of people Sixteen-year-old Marah Ryan is devastated by her mothers death Her father Johnny strives to hold the family together but even with his best efforts Marah becomes unreachable in her grief Nothing and no one seems to matter to her until she falls in love with a young man who makes her smile again and leads her into his dangerous shadowy worldDorothy Hart---the woman who once called herself Cloud---is at the center of Tullys tragic past She repeatedly abandoned her daughter Tully as a child but now she comes back drawn to her daughters side at a time when Tully is most alone At long last Dorothy must face her darkest fear Only by revealing the ugly secrets of her past can she hope to become the mother her daughter needsA single tragic choice and a middle-of-the-night phone call will bring these women together and set them on a poignant powerful journey of redemption Each has lost her way and they will need each one another---and maybe a miracle---to transform their livesAn emotionally complex heart-wrenching novel about love motherhood loss and new beginnings Fly Away reminds us that where there is life there is hope and where there is love there is forgiveness Told with her trademark powerful storytelling and illuminating prose Kristin Hannah reveals why she is one of the most beloved writers of our day.