Friends And Other Enemies

Nov 9, 2025 9:13 PM

Author:Diana Stainforth

WHO NEEDS FRIENDS?

Poor little rich girl Ryder Harding did. And her father bought them with his money. Touchy and awkward, Ryder moves into a flat with the intriguing Alix Bassingham and talented, red-haired Imogen Lydden and, suddenly, she blossoms.

OR ENEMIES?

But when Ryder's unscrupulous businessman father is imprisoned for fraud, her new-found confidence is shattered. Her lover betrays her. Her friends appear to let her down. Alone and penniless, with her five-year-old brother to look after, Ryder has only one asset - her father's legacy of Bailing Airfield.

FRIENDS AND OTHER ENEMIES

Charting the ebb and flow of female friendships and set against a background of international polo and transatlantic airlines, this is a powerful contemporary saga of a woman who throws down a challenge - to life, to business and to the tough, unpredictable man who loves her.

Reviews

Anne McCaffrey, one of the queens of science fiction, knows exactly how to give her public what it wants

—— The Times

'Her book is lifted...into the rare company of those that linger in the mind long after dramas, sagas and sophisticated frolics have coalesced into a blur of half-forgotten fiction'

—— Bookman

'There is humour as well as tragedy in this book, besides its faint note of hope for human nature; and it is delightfully written in the now familiar Southern tradition'

—— Sunday Times

Someone rare has written this very fine novel, a writer with the liveliest sense of life and the warmest, most authentic humour. A touching book; and so funny, so likeable

—— Truman Capote

There is humour as well as tragedy in this book, besides its faint note of hope for human nature; and it is delightfully written in the now familiar Southern tradition

—— Sunday Times

Her book is lifted...into the rare company of those that linger in the memory...

—— Bookman

No one ever forgets this book

—— Independent

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