What do women talk about when they know they don't have forever? They talk about what they have always talked about, only they go deeper and are more honest; with outrageous humour they try to mitigate pain. Intimate and uncensored sharing is at the heart of this deeply moving novel about the grit and power of female friends. Ann and Ruth have always talked as only great friends can - honestly, and about everything- husbands and marriages, sex lives and children, their work, their hopes, their disappointments, and their dreams. For Ann, cautious and conventional, her closeness to the outspoken and eccentric Ruth brings about discovery, a chance to say whatever she wants, and, most important, under the insistent tutelage of Ruth, to become herself. Over the years, the women have shared recipes, child care, delicate and dangerous secrets and each rests secure in the knowledge that they will be friends forever. Then Ruth is diagnosed with cancer, and everything changes; the women begin to share something more profound than either of them might have predicted. Written with an unerring ear for how women talk, laugh, and cry together, and with a gift for capturing the magical uni
- ISBN13 9780552997256
- Publish Date 5 September 1996 (first published 12 April 1994)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 April 2008
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Imprint Black Swan
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 224
- Language English