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When We Were Friends

  • SKU: 9780778311294
  • UPC: 9780778311294
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The world was a very different place in the late-nineties, when Fern and Jessica became best friends. It was a compliment to get groped in a club, normal to have your arse rated out of ten in school, and a song about a man murdering his pregnant wife was Christmas No. 1. Not that the two girls noticed any of that. They were too busy growing up, trying to find themselves, experimenting with love, alcohol and drugs amid their near-obsessive friendship. Until, one day something happened to make Fern cut Jessica out of her life completely.   Fifteen years later, the pair are reunited in a very changed world. Fern’s a successful mental health columnist, waiting for her perfect boyfriend to finally propose. Whereas Jessica is a single mum who has done very well out of her divorce. Tentatively, they try to rebuild their friendship while Fern reflects on the events leading up to their initial downfall. Viewing their adolescence in a post MeToo/Women’s March world, Fe





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