Friday Nights Joanna Trollope

The latest novel from number one best-selling author Joanna Trollope.

'Joanna has held up a mirror to millions of women around the world, and they've seen themselves, their lives, their relationships and their desires staring back..' Good Housekeeping'Trollope is a slick and stylish writer'. - Daily Telegraph.'She writes so beautifully.... in a style so graceful and judicious that you would cal it restful, if it were not also palpably intelligent' - Evening Standard.

Joanne Trollope is critically acclaimed for her passionate and compelling insights into the fabric of modern relationships. In 'Friday Nights', she focuses on the importance of female friendships, and what happens when the balance is upset by an unwelcome stranger.

It is often claimed, nowadays, that friendship is the new family. Friday Nights is concerned specifically with female friendship.

Friday Nights tells the story of six women, all very different, and in different life circumstances, ranging in age from early twenties to early seventies, who have come to rely upon each other's company to beguile the frequent anticlimax of Friday nights.

And then one of them introduces a man into the mix ...

It's Eleanor who starts the Friday nights. From her window she sees two young women with small children - separate, struggling and plainly lonely - and decides to ask them in. A group gradually forms of six different disparate women, who become an unlikely circle of friends. Ranging in age from Jules, a 22 year old DJ, to Eleanor herself, a retired professional who walks with a stick, they include one wife, three mothers, three singletons and five working women. They all, variously, treasure their Friday nights together.

But then one of them meets a man - an enigmatic, significant man - and the whole dynamic changes. Closely forged bonds are tested and some break. With wit and warmth, Joanna Trollope explores the complexities, the sabotages, and the shifting currents of modern friendship.About Joanna Trollope
Author of eagerly awaited and sparklingly readable novels often centred around the domestic nuances and dilemmas of life in contemporary England, Joanna Trollope is also the author of a number of historical novels and of Britannia's Daughters, a study of women in the British Empire. In 1988 she wrote her first contemporary novel, The Choir, and this was followed by A Village Affair, A Passionate Man, The Rector's Wife, The Men and the Girls, A Spanish Lover, The Best of Friends, Next of Kin, Other People's Children, Marrying the Mistress, Girl from the South, Brother and Sister and, most recently, Second Honeymoon. She lives in Gloucestershire.

Friday Nights
Allen & Unwin
Author: Joanna Trollope
ISBN: 9780747594536
RRP: $32.95