Friday Nights
A Novel
Trollope, Joanna
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
From the master of literary domestic drama, a page-turning novel that dissects the complexities of female friendship and the choices that define womens lives.
It is Eleanor who starts the Friday night get-togethers. From her window she sees two young women, with small children, separate, struggling, and plainly lonelyand decides to ask them in.
What began as a lark soon becomes a ritual, and the circle widens to include six very different women. They range in age from Jules, who is twenty-two and wants to be a DJ, to Eleanor herself, a retired professional who walks with a stick. They include one wife, three mothers, three singles, and five working women. All of them, variously, value Friday nights.
Until one of them meets a manan enigmatic, significant manand the whole dynamic changes. The bonds that have been so closely forged are testedand some of them break.
With wit and warmth, Joanna Trollope explores the complexities, the sabotages, and the shifting currents of modern female friendship.
BOOK REVIEWS
Don't be too quick to dismiss this skillfully crafted novel as mere 'women's fiction'...men could learn a lot from some earnest perusal of books like these. Washington PostAnother piece of intelligent domestic fiction from the reliable Trollope, who makes us care about all of these women and the choices they make. Booklist Insightful and reassuring. Kirkus ReviewsTrollope's memorable characters do more than just represent varying female predicaments: they develop as rich individuals who come to triumph over their pasts...Trollope masterfully shows how work and romance can tip the scales in female friendships. The result is a careful and compelling examination of one man's insidious effect on a group of female friends, as memorable as it is readable. Publishers Weekly
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 1596914076
ISBN(13-digit): 9781596914070
Dewey Decimal: 823/.914
Library of Congress: 2007037579
Book Publisher: St Martins Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 330
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