Fourth Estate, 416pp, £16.99
‘Until recently Elizabeth Day wasn't simply passionate about friendship, she was addicted to it,’ wrote Kathryn Hughes in the , confessing that she too was a ‘recovering friendaholic’, and therefore found pointed out that ‘emotional exhibitionism is now a lucrative business’, and that the book is an offshoot of Day's podcast series . That it will be a commercial success is a ‘foregone conclusion’ as ‘Many people will find in Day's relatable prose an everywoman figure who, like them, has survived the harrowing experience of being ghosted by a friend’.
