Back when I was a teen, I used to read Joanna Trollope, as if it were science fiction. At a time when husbands (adulterous or otherwise), my own children and, of course, Agas, were a brave new world.
I have to admit, she doesn't really come onto my reading radar these days, but this cover caught my eye. It looks very, well, contemporary.
From her window, Eleanor sees two young women, with small children, separate, struggling and plainly lonely - and decides to ask them in, and see what happens. From that first act of friendship, a group of six different women, become a circle of friends, meeting every Friday night.
Friday Nights is out in hardback on 4 February 2008.
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