‘Divorce brought us closer’
Amanda Gardiner, 52, lives in Yalding, Kent.
I can still remember the day I met my best friend Helen Turner around 15 years ago. Sitting in a pub in Yalding, the small village where we both lived, we shouted for our daughters at the same time. ‘Great choice!’ I laughed, noting that they both had the same name. Swapping polite small talk about our children and husbands, we soon said goodbye and went our separate ways. We continued to bump into each other around the village, in the park and in the pub, but we only ever exchanged