Friday nights : a novel / Joanna Trollope.

ISBN: 1596914076
ISBN: 9781596914070
Physical Description: 330 pages ; 25 cm
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury, 2008.
Distributor: Distributed to the trade by Macmillan.

Summary:

It is Eleanor who starts the Friday night get-togethers. From her window she sees two young women, with small children, separate, struggling, and plainly lonely and decides to ask them in.What began as a lark soon becomes a ritual, and the circle widens to include six very different women. They range in age from Jules, who is twenty-two and wants to be a DJ, to Eleanor herself, a retired professional who walks with a stick. They include one wife, three mothers, three singles, and five working women. All of them, variously, value Friday nights.Until one of them meets a man an enigmatic, significant man and the whole dynamic changes. The bonds that have been so closely forged are tested and some of them break.With wit and warmth, Joanna Trollope explores the complexities, the sabotages, and the shifting currents of modern female friendship.