

Jules hangs up the call because "Max is freaking out" and Hannah heads home to make dinner. And so giving her that extra oomph gave the relationship, I think, more strength and more value." It's the kind of friendship I want in my own life, the kind of friend that I want to be. "I think you see they've supported each other through. heartbreak, through loss, through family strife, and really supporting each other in being the women that they want to be. "In the book, she's just a childhood friend and there are these beautiful interactions, but I think giving Jules that complexity and that layer, those layers also gave the relationship with Hannah a lot of layers," Tyler told ET. Jules' role is much heavier in the show than in the book, which delighted the actress who played her. However, in the show, Jules is metro reporter who is happily in a relationship with the female Max. In the book, Jules was Hannah's childhood friend who now works at the San Francisco Chronicle as a photo editor alongside Max, a male investigative reporter with a crush. While there she takes a call from her friend Jules. Meanwhile, as she did in the book, Hannah goes to San Francisco to get bread to make a special meal for Bailey. The next morning, Owen dodges calls from his boss, advises Hannah to "wait it out" with Bailey, and encourages Bailey to be nicer to Hannah. It's there that tension between Hannah and Bailey is first hinted about, though it's not as detailed as the book, which explained that the teen's distaste for her stepmother stemmed from two things - Hannah making a comment about Bailey looking younger than her age and arriving five minutes late to pick her up one time. The pair goes on to reminisce over their second date and discuss a taking a vacation for their upcoming 14-month anniversary. The show then goes back four days to where a brunette Hannah (she's blonde in the book), is surprised in her wood-turning workshop by Owen, who reminds her about the upcoming release of an article about her, something that didn't exist in the book.
