
"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. That would be more fun," Hannah told Netflix. When the streaming platform asked if Hannah based Tully's character on herself, the author gave a very definitive answer. How Does The 'Firefly Lane' Book End? What To Know.
