Fly Away

Title: Fly Away
Author: Kristin Hannah
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Publication Date: 
ISBN: 9781250031815
Number of Pages: 400
How I Got It: via publicist
Format: paperback


Goodreads Summary:

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, don’t 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 Kate’s children--but Tully knows nothing about family or motherhood or taking care of people.

Sixteen-year-old Marah Ryan is devastated by her mother’s 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 world.

Dorothy Hart--the woman who once called herself Cloud--is at the center of Tully’s tragic past. She repeatedly abandoned her daughter, Tully, as a child, but now she comes back, drawn to her daughter’s 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 needs.

A 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 one another--and maybe a miracle--to transform their lives.

An 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.

My Review:

I have not heard of Kristin Hannah and was quite surprised to find out that she has written 20 other novels! Fly Away is the sequel to Firefly Lane and I usually don't like to read sequels without reading the first book. That being said, I found Fly Away to be what I consider "a bathtub book" maybe even a "beach read." The story of how a woman's death causes her best friend and daughter to spiral out of control holds a generic, mass appeal that I know is mooned over by some female readers, just not me. 

Order the book, watch the trailer and read an excerpt here

** I received this book in exchange for an honest review **