Hannah confirmed that a lot of the character of Kate is based on her mother, and who she imagined she was like throughout her life. 'Many people would do therapy for this, but as a writer, I go into my own head and create her.' 'I finally reached 40 and thought, Okay, it’s time for me to go in search of my mother, to try to understand who she was,' Hannah told Netflix. She wrote Firefly Lane partly to work through that grief. In fact, the author told Netflix she was inspired to begin writing Firefly Lane after her mother died from inflammatory breast cancer when she was 26 years old. 'I am also Kate.' Is it based on a true story?Īs the saying goes, you write from experience-and Hannah did unfortunately have a loss like the one featured in Firefly Lane. The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah is an impactful and epic story set during the Dust Bowl era. That would be more fun,' Hannah told Netflix. The strength of Hannah’s prose brings the characters to life in a way that will make you unable to tear yourself away from them. And she's done it again Kristin Hannah has a way of taking me on a journey into the past and leaving me with feelings of shock, sadness, anger and more knowledge than I started with, but she's also a master at taking all of that and showing there are those who, with the courage, strength and resiliency to survive, can change their stories in history, even change history itself. A former lawyer turned writer, she lives with her husband in the Pacific Northwest.-This text refers to the paperback edition. ' The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah is a captivating, heartbreaking tale of a family who will do anything for each other and everything to survive. When the streaming platform asked if Hannah based Tully's character on herself, the author gave a very definitive answer. KRISTIN HANNAH is the 1 New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty novels, including The Nightingale, The Great Alone, and The Four Winds. How Does The 'Firefly Lane' Book End? What To Know.

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