The friends EVERY woman needs (and the ones you don’t)

riends are the business – they scoop us up when we’re down and cheer us on throughout life. When I arrived in London at the age of 20 to start a new job, I fell in with a bunch of young women. We are all in our 50s now, a small group, each of us very different, which is perhaps how it should be. As life coach Carole Ann Rice puts it, ‘It’s unrealistic to expect one friend to be everything to you. Everyone offers something unique, and I look upon my own friendships as a sort of composite quilt.’ So, who’s in your inner