"Pushing boundaries as it explores the meaning of long term friendships and family, this deeply thought-provoking novel has been chosen as a LoveReading Star Book."
Emotionally astute and beautifully crafted, Among Friends delivers an unforgettable reading experience. In one weekend a thirty year old friendship is smashed to pieces. Debut author Hal Ebbott writes with a masterly pen. He slices open fear and uncertainty and grief, creating questions and provoking thoughts and feelings. Concentrating on six characters, there is an incredible intimacy on offer as trust is broken resulting in fractured relationships. The story caused a physical ache to take up residence within me. Layers upon layers are carefully constructed before being knocked down. I flinched and felt uncertainty as I was caught up with the raw feelings that were exposed. Despite the pain, I just couldn’t stop reading. I really wasn’t sure where the story was going to take me, and I lived on the edge of cliff throughout. I just had to include this as a Liz Pick of the Month and LoveReading Star Book. Devastatingly clever and powerful, Among Friends is highly recommended by the LoveReading team.
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Four friends. A betrayal that should shatter their seemingly perfect lives. But will they let it?
Amos and Emerson have been friends for more than thirty years. Despite vastly different backgrounds, the two now form an enviable portrait of middle age: their wives are close, their teenage daughters have grown up together, their days are passed in the comfortable languor of New York City wealth. They share an unbreakable bond, or so they think.
This weekend, however, something is different. After gathering for Emerson's birthday at his country home, celebration gives way to old rivalries and resentments which erupt in a shocking act of violence, one that threatens to shatter their finely made world.
In its wake, each must choose: between whom and what they love most.
Among Friends features in the following genres: Book Club Recommendations, Liz Robinson's Picks of the Month, Recommendations, Star Books, Family Drama, Literary Fiction, Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Narrative theme: Social issues, Family Drama, Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Literary Fiction, Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Narrative theme: Social issues, Narrative theme: Love and relationships
Among Friends is available in Paperback, Hardback
Among Friends was written by Hal Ebbott and published by Picador an imprint of Pan Macmillan
Among Friends has 320 pages
£17.09
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