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City of Friends by Joanna Trollope
Joanna Trollope's new novel, City of Friends, follows the lives of four best friends: their happiness, heartbreaks and secrets. We gave away 30 free copies to Gransetters to review.
She glanced at her phone again. There were appeals from the girls, from her colleagues, a text from Steve reading with uncharacteristic imperiousness, 'Call me.' She couldn't. She couldn't call anyone. She leaned forward, gripping the edge of the bench, and stared at the ground. God, she thought, am I losing my mind? Is this what happens when you lose your job?
The day Stacey Grant loses her job feels like the last day of her life. Or at least, the only life she'd ever known. For who was she if not a City high-flyer, Senior Partner at one of the top private equity firms in London?
As Stacey starts to reconcile her old life with the new – one without professional achievements or meetings, but instead, long days at home with her dog and ailing mother, waiting for her successful husband to come home – she at least has The Girls to fall back on, Beth, Melissa and Gaby. These girls, now women, had been best friends from the early days of university right through their working lives, and for all the happiness and heartbreaks in between.
But these women all have personal problems of their own, and when Stacey's redundancy forces a betrayal to emerge that was supposed to remain secret, their long cherished friendships will be pushed to their limits.
About the author
Joanna Trollope is the author of nineteen highly acclaimed and bestselling novels, including The Rector's Wife, Marrying the Mistress and Daughters in Law. She was appointed OBE in 1996, and a trustee of the National Literacy Trust in 2012. In 2014, she updated Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility as the opening novel in the Austen Project. City of Friends is her twentieth novel.
City of Friends is published by Macmillan and is available to buy online and from all good booksellers.
How to win a copy
The giveaway is now closed.
We're asking all winners to share their thoughts about the book on the discussion thread. Everyone who posts their detailed feedback by midday on 21 April will be entered into a prize draw to win a £100 Love2shop voucher.
This giveaway is sponsored by Macmillan
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