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When we were friends : a novel / Holly Bourne.
From the day they first meet as teenagers, Fern and Jessica are best friends. Despite their differences, they are there for each other throughout everything, navigating the difficulties of growing up and fitting in. That is, until Jessica crosses a line that Fern can't forgive.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780778311294 (paperback)
- ISBN: 0778311295 (paperback)
- Physical Description: 404 pages ; 21 cm
- Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : Mira, [2022]
- Copyright: ©2022
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes discussion questions. |
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| Subject: | Female friendship > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Black humor. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Kenton County.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Erlanger Branch | BOURN H (Text) | 33126025248844 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
From the day they first meet as teenagers, Fern and Jessica are best friends. Despite their differences, they are there for each other throughout everything, navigating the difficulties of growing up and fitting in. That is, until Jessica crosses a line that Fern can't forgive. - Baker & Taylor
When estranged friends Fern and Jessica are reunited in a very changed world, they tentatively try to rebuild their friendship while Fern reflects on the events leading up to their initial downfall 15 years earlier as old and unhealthy patterns reemerge. Original. 40,000 first printing. - Harlequin
âHolly Bourneâs unique voice immediately invites you in and you can't look away. Gritty, funny and poignant.â âBeth O'Leary, author of The Flatshare
In this darkly funny novel, two women reunite after a decade of estrangement, only to confront the forces that destroyed their friendship in the first place.
From the day they first meet as teenagers, Fern and Jessica are best friends. Despite their differences, they are there for each other throughout everything, navigating the difficulties of growing up and fitting in. That is, until Jessica crosses a line that Fern canât forgive.
But now, more than ten years later, Jessica has unexpectedly reappeared in Fernâs life.
A lot has changed for them bothâbut can their relationship be different now that they are older? Is it possible for either of them to rewrite the roles they've been cast in? Or will their shared history ultimately be doomed to repeat itself again?
Set between the present day and the early â00s, When We Were Friends is a blisteringly funny and devastating novel: both a joyful celebration of female friendship and a razor-sharp look at the damage we can all cause to those we claim to love the most.