The Best Of Friends

Nov 28, 2025 9:38 AM

Author:Joanna Trollope

The Best Of Friends

Let multi-million copy bestselling author Joanna Trollope draw you into this perceptive and prescient novel that will keep you gripped. She has a real skill in creating credible characters - and delving into our deepest thoughts and emotions. Perfect for readers of Elizabeth Noble, Erica James and Amanda Prowse, this is a novel that will stay with you for a long time...

'Trollope at her best' -- Spectator

'Undeniably warmhearted and socially topical...above all a novel filled with good advice' -- Observer

'Truly, I couldn't put it down. I'm telling you, Trollope is a significant chronicler' -- Daily Mail

'Trollope has a keen ear for the yelps of distress, as lives are sliced in half by

shabby betrayal... A book that is as enjoyable as it is thoughtful' -- The Times

'An absorbing read' -- ***** Reader review

'Great story, very touching but - a wonderful read' -- ***** Reader review

'An excellent book which I couldn't put down' -- ***** Reader review

'Joanna Trollope never fails in her story telling' -- ***** Reader review

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DOES 'FRIENDS' EVER REALLY MEAN JUST 'FRIENDS'?

Gina and Laurence have been the best of friends ever since they were teenagers. Love has never been a factor.

Now, Gina is married to the exquisitely tasteful Fergus and lives in stylish perfection in a huge house; Laurence is married to down-to-earth Hilary and lives in the Bee House, a home and hotel.

When, with elegant disdain, Fergus announces that he is leaving Gina and their teenage daughter, Gina's misery ricochets through the two homes and she turns for emotional support to Laurence, her dearest friend.

And as Laurence gives comfort, so his own marriage and the stability of his children edges towards destruction ...

Reviews

Trollope at her best

—— Spectator

Undeniably warmhearted and socially topical...above all a novel filled with good advice

—— Observer

Truly, I couldn't put it down. I'm telling you, Trollope is a significant chronicler

—— Daily Mail

Trollope has a keen ear for the yelps of distress, as lives are sliced in half by shabby betrayal... A book that is as enjoyable as it is thoughtful

—— The Times

Trollope's bleakest and most satisfying work to date

—— The Sunday Times

At times funny, at others achingly sad, this book will cheer you and charm you

—— She

Ed Vulliamy provides a brilliant, rigorous analysis

—— Independent

With a great sense of timing, Vulliamy now comes out with the most vivid book so far published in English on the bloody calamity that has been visited on Mexico's northern border lands... The author has done a great deal of painstaking work in investigating and describing the blood-soaked frontier and the political cross-currants in both regions... it stands that this is a fascinating introduction to the bloody last act of the "war on drugs", which must surely soon pass unlamented into history

—— Hugh O'Shaughnessy , The Observer, New Review

This absorbing odyssey along the Mexican-American border gives pause for thought to anyone who ignores the side-effects of cocaine...Vulliamy's reporting is faultlessly brave ...the scenery and characters he meets are brought alive with vividness and intensity'

—— Alex Spillius , Telegraph

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