TROLLOPE, JOANNA — Friday Nights

Toronto, Seal Books. 2009. (ISBN: 1400026040) Pbk. Book, It's Eleanor who starts the Friday nights. From her scruffy house in Fulham she observes two young women with small children, separate - struggling and plainly lonely - and decides to invite them in and see what happens. What happens is that these very different women, Eleanor, Paula and Lindsay, are joined by three more: Jules, Blaise and Karen. Together they make up one retired professional, one budding DJ, one frazzled wife, three mothers, three singletons and five working women. Slowly, gradually and despite vast differences in background and circumstance, a group forms: a sorority of sorts, and a circle of friends.With wit and warmth, Joanna Trollope explores the complexities, the sabotages, and the shifting currents of modern friendship. As New.