Fly Away: The Emotional Sequel to the Netflix Series Firefly Lane

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Hannah's sequel to Firefly Lane (2008) demonstrates that those who ignore family history are often condemned to repeat it. I also had a hard time picturing Dorothy/Cloud's mother the way she was described in FA because of how she was portrayed in FFL.

Tully tries to fulfill her deathbed promise to Kate--to be there for Kate’s children--but Tully knows nothing about family or motherhood or taking care of people.Hannah said: “Writing a “sequel” was the hardest thing I’ve done, and I do not relish the idea of trying it again. It made the story feel very twisty-turny and like you were living through Tully and Marah’s depressions alongside them. Marge Mularkey – almost the same old Margie from Firefly Lane; although she is now a little quieter and has aged considerably due to her daughter Katie’s illness and death, she is still that rock for her family (and new friend Dorothy) through the difficult times; she recognizes that Tully is in trouble long before Tully does and tries to help, and she is a huge encouragement when Dorothy decides to care for her daughter while she’s in a coma. Told primarily from Tully's POV, we learn that in the years following her best friend's death, Tully has been in a downward spiral of drugs and alcohol.

Kate and Tully had an epic friendship between two completely different young women that lasted a lifetime. Her first novel published in the UK, Night Road, was one of eight books selected for the UK's 2011 TV Book Club Summer Read. Cloudbabies is a charming pre-school series about four, childlike characters, Baba Pink, Baba Blue, Baba Yellow and Baba Green whose job is to look after the sky and their Sky Friends, Sun, Moon, Rainbow, Fuffa Cloud and Little Star. FLY AWAY is the story of three women who have lost their way and need each other plus a miracle to transform their lives.In her expensive black nylons, she walked in the spitting rain down the dirty Seattle sidewalk toward home. The only likable character was Dorothy and her story was just thrown in so late…the other main characters were annoying! But chance and circumstance brought them together and through the decades they were devoted to each other. Goodreads says, " Tully Hart has always been larger than life, a woman fueled by big dreams and driven by memories of a painful past. Yeah, it was just one bad thing after another, but thankfully Hannah's writing style is very readable and addicting in a sense.

Somewhere between the dining room and the living room, she banged into a side table and almost fell.Aging isn't easy for any woman in the public eye, but it may be proving especially difficult for Tully Hart, the ex-star of the once-phenom talk show The Girlfriend Hour. If you could ask the author anything about Fly Away—clarification on a plot point, a detail about a particular character, scenes from the cutting-room floor—what would it be? One must be able to grasp the dead having a voice, as Kate’s voice is the main one here, even though much of the narrative comes from Tully. Tully reached out for him, pulling him close, but even as he kissed her and pressed his body into hers, she felt herself starting to cry, and when her tears started, there was no way to hold them back. Marah Ryan – Johnny and Katie’s daughter who tried their patience from the day she was born; now, at nineteen years old, she is a college dropout who is struggling with depression, dating someone who is all wrong for her, completely withdrawn from her family, and barely managing to eat and live; like her father, she knows failure and regret and feels responsible for Tully’s accident; deep down though, she is still Johnny and Katie’s little girl who needs help… and forgiveness.