1/20/2024 0 Comments Friendships secrets and lies![]() ![]() When one of them turns 40, they go to a festival in their old hometown to celebrate and recapture their youth. In The Festival she writes about four friends, who were close in school but have since drifted apart. Sarah Naughton is a wonderful writer, who creates characters that completely draw you in (did you read Tattletale?). But Hester is not the kind of person you want on your side. When something terrible happens, Melissa is forced to turn to Hester for help. The Woman Next Door was her debut adult thriller and is told from the point of view of neighbours Hester, a lonely and obsessive older woman, and Melissa, a young mother with a teenaged daughter. But their own secrets mean these women are stronger than anyone realised.Ĭass Green is another of my favourite writers. Has one of them broken the rules of the lying game (lie to everyone else but not to one another)?Ĭlaire McGowan’s The Other Wife, is, like Little Rumours, told from the points of view of three very different women whose lives have been or are being controlled by terrible men. Secrets and lies surrounding their youth in a boarding school in the marshes come to light when a dead body is discovered. Here are some of my favourites:įrom Ruth Ware, who writes brilliant thrillers, The Lying Game, is a novel about four women who haven’t seen one another in years, but who literally drop everything to reunite when one of them sends a text: I need you. When one of their children goes missing, rumours swirl that one of them, at least, knows why.īut mine is only the latest in a run of thrillers focused on female friendships. My own novel, Little Rumours, deals with three women living in a small Devon village, their relationships to one another and to others. ![]() Even the ancient Greeks knew that when a woman turns to vengeance it can be shockingly scorched earth (see Euripedes’ Medea).Ĭonsequently, female friendships are rich material for novelists writing thrillers. When friendship turns to enmity, women can be enormously underhand and creative in their cruelty. Female friends can be therapists, staunch defenders, cheerleaders and partners in crime.īut when things go wrong, oh boy! The ending of a close female friendship can be more crippling and more brutal than the ending of a romantic one, yet this is not generally acknowledged. We develop these close relationships through sharing mutual life experiences, from our first days at school, university or work, to the antenatal groups that get us through early motherhood. Women can be the most loyal and the most vicious in defence of one another and enduring female friendships get us through the hardest of times. Female friendships can be closer and more intense than romances. ![]()
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