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    Best of Friends

    By Cathy Kelly

    3.5/5

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMar 14, 2011
    ISBN9780007389315
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    Best of Friends
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    Cathy Kelly

    Cathy Kelly worked as a journalist before becoming a novelist. Her debut novel, Woman to Woman, became an instant number 1 bestseller and since then she has published 22 novels, which are loved by readers all around the world and have sold millions of copies globally. In addition to her writing, she is a Unicef Ambassador and lives in County Wicklow with her family and dogs.

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    • 4/5
      When one couple's marriage ends, the results snowball through a small English town. Sophy, the couple's 16- year old, smart and sensitive daughter is particularly disoriented and feels abandoned by her father who leaves home. Fortunately, her unconventional, creative and wise grandmother Vi lives in town and helps provide space and sanity. Gus, her younger friend and his family are accommodating and supportive as well. I've always enjoyed Trollope's masterful storytelling about the intricacies of families, friends and relationships in general. The Best of Friends is another winner.
    • 3/5
      The main protagonist is sixteen-year-old Sophy. Her parents seem to spend most of their time arguing, and it’s become increasingly bitter...

      The bulk of the book takes place in just a couple of months. Sophy is a likeable girl, although I never felt that I really got to know her. Joanna Trollope isn’t the greatest at characterisation; nevertheless the situations and descriptions of events managed to pull on my emotions quite strongly.

      The writing is terse and well-paced, the conversations mostly believable; places and appearances are described with just enough sensory detail to make them memorable without so much as to become boring.

      While there’s a sense in which this is a coming-of-age story for Sophy, it’s also classic women’s fiction of the kind that could be enjoyed by older teenage bookworms as well as adults. There’s some ‘strong’ language, but although plenty of bedroom scenes are mentioned, there are, thankfully, no details.

      Three and a half stars would be fairer.
    • 5/5
      I could not imagine the ending and as usual, Trollope takes everything into account as she weaves the story. I'm so much a part of the story that I feel as though I am right there with her characters when I read Trollope's writing---it's always a total escape into the world she is producing with her words.
    • 3/5
      Oddly bleak and unfocussed, the story of two marriages, an older couple and the younger generation whose lives are all turned to chaos when one husband decides to leave one wife. Nicely written but it hops about from person to person and generation to generation - which might be what life is like however art demands something more. Not my favourite Joanna Trollope.
    • 5/5
      Gina and Laurence had been childhood friends and were the best of friends as adults. They were never in love with each other, just the best of friends. Now, Gina was married to the worldly Fergus (who had changed his name from Leslie) and Laurence was married to Hilary. Both had children and seemingly idyllic lives.Then, Fergus told Gina that he wanted a divorce. She was shattered and turned to Laurence for understanding; but what Laurence did for Gina endangered his own happy family. I loved this story. I thought it was very engrossing and I give it an A+!
    • 2/5
      The storyline was interesting but the characters flat. I could not understand their motivation behind their actions and would have enjoyed a bit more development of at least one or two of them.
    • 3/5
      gave me insight into children's reactions to divorce, and placed into words some of my own "feelings" that I had yet been unable to express...it made me sad