Rachel Cooke

A fond, fascinated look at women's friendship through the fiction, diaries, and letters of friends A highly entertaining, often instructive anthology bursting with every kind of amicable - or inimical - anecdote... Cooke has dug deep and uncovered nuggets of pure gold in every form of writing... a delicious book about the great power and strength of real friendship TABLET...

A fond, fascinated look at women's friendship through the fiction, diaries, and letters of friends'A highly entertaining, often instructive anthology bursting with every kind of amicable - or inimical - anecdote . . . Cooke has dug deep and uncovered nuggets of pure gold in every form of writing . . . a delicious book about the great power and...