Friends and Strangers

Friends and Strangers
J Courtney Sullivan
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 416pg
18 Feb 2021 UK
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9781529349450
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THE PERFECT BOOK GROUP SUMMER READ FROM BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF THE ENGAGEMENTS AND MAINE' I LOVED IT' Meg Wolitzer, author of The Female Persuasion' HER BEST YET' Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of Daisy Jones & The Six' A SMART AND DEEPLY COMPELLING EXPLORATION OF FEMALE FRIENDSHIP' Tom Perrotta, author of The Leftovers' CAPTIVATING, WISE AND LAUGH-OUT-LOUD FUNNY' Ann Napolitano, author of Dear EdwardElisabeth, an accomplished journalist and new mother, is struggling to adjust to life in a small town after nearly twenty years in New York City. Alone in the house with her infant son all day (and awake with him much of the night), she feels uneasy, adrift. She neglects her work, losing untold hours to her Brooklyn moms' Facebook group, her "influencer" sister' s Instagram feed, and text messages with the best friend she never sees anymore. Enter Sam, a senior at the local women' s college, whom Elisabeth hires to babysit. Sam is struggling to decide between the path she' s always planned on and a romantic entanglement that threatens her ambition. She' s worried about student loan debt and what the future holds. In short, they grow close. But when Sam finds an unlikely kindred spirit in Elisabeth' s father-in-law, the true differences between the women' s lives become starkly revealed and a betrayal has devastating consequences. A masterful exploration of motherhood, power dynamics, and privilege in its many forms, Friends and Strangers reveals how a single year can shape the course of a life.
J. Courtney Sullivan is a writer of extraordinary gifts, and this is her most affecting book yet, which I just wanted to keep reading and reading straight through to its climactic and emotional last pages, because its world felt completely realized, and completely real. Sullivan is a writer who offers up small human moments and large social ones, all within the frame of a truly good story. I loved it - Meg Wolitzer, best-selling author of THE FEMALE PERSUASIONI have long been a fan of J. Courtney Sullivan' s insightful and rich novels-Friends and Strangers is her best yet! Sullivan has a stunning ability to capture the tenderness and frailty of human relationships. Her newest is a poignant, wise, big-hearted novel full of complicated women doing their best and striving to do better. - Taylor Jenkins Reid, best-selling author of DAISY JONES & THE SIXThis book pokes at the sometimes troubling relationship between caregivers and mothers, and what starts out as a sweet and straightforward story evolves into something more nuanced and complex - VogueSullivan . . . writes with empathy for her characters even as she reveals their flaws and shortcomings. And while the story she tells focuses primarily on two women from different backgrounds and at different stages of life, it also illuminates broader issues about money, privilege, and class; marriage, family, and friendship; and the duelling demands of career and domesticity with which many women struggle. This perceptive novel about a complex friendship between two women resonates as broadly as it does deeply - KirkusSullivan' s intimate, incisive latest explores the evolving friendship between a new mother and her babysitter . . . Readers will be captivated by Sullivan' s authentic portrait of modern motherhood - Publishers WeeklyFriends and Strangers is a smart and deeply compelling exploration of female friendship and the complicated politics of motherhood and childcare. J. Courtney Sullivan is a shrewd and sympathetic observer of our current cultural moment, with an unerring eye for the way that the unspoken realities of money and class can affect even our most intimate relationships - Tom Perrotta, best-selling author of THE LEFTOVERSJ. Courtney Sullivan is one of our great literary treasures, and Friends and Strangers is permeated with her brilliance and heart. The novel is a captivating, wise, laugh-out-loud-funny story about the life-changing friendship between Elisabeth, a new mom, and Sam, her college-age babysitter. I loved this novel from the first word to the last. - Ann Napolitano, best-selling author of DEAR EDWARD
J. Courtney Sullivan is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Commencement,Maine, The Engagements, and Saints For All Occasions. Maine was named a Best Book of the Year by Time magazine, and a Washington Post Notable Book for 2011. The Engagements was one of People Magazine' s Top Ten Books of 2013 and an Irish Times Best Book of the Year. It is soon to be a major motion picture produced by Reese Witherspoon and distributed by Fox 2000, and it will be translated into 17 languages. Her latest novel, Saints For All Occasions, was named one of the ten best books of the year by the Washington Post, a New York Times Critic' s Pick for 2017, and a New England Book Award nominee. Courtney' s writing has also appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Chicago Tribune, New York magazine, Elle, Glamour, Allure, Real Simple, and O: The Oprah Magazine, among many others. She is a co-editor, with Courtney Martin, of the essay anthology Click: When We Knew We Were Feminists. In 2017, she wrote the foreword to a new edition of one of her favorite children' s books, Anne of Green Gables, for Penguin Classics. A Massachusetts native, Courtney now lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband, son, and dog.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781529349450
Published: 18 Feb 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Two Roads
Publisher: John Murray Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 416

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