The Virago Book of Friendship - Rachel Cooke blhhgf they reflect on the comfort

they reflect on the comfort of their cohabiting friendship as it blossoms into a life full of joy and meaning

We're talking about those meal staples we pick up without thinking - chicken breast

Cut loose from the past and confronted with a present missing even the birds of his childhood

they gain an increasingly profound yet tacit understanding of each other until the witness becomes an accomplice

Reasons Not to Worry is an accessible introduction to the Stoic principles of virtue

The Virago Book of Friendship - Rachel Cooke blhhgf they reflect on the comfortA fond, fascinated look at women's friendship through the fiction, diaries, and letters of friends'A highly entertaining, often instructive anthology bursting with every kind of amicable or inimical anecdote . . . Cooke has dug deep and uncovered nuggets of pure gold in every form of writing . . . a delicious book about the great power and strength of real friendship' TABLET'There is a lot of joy in this book . . . The late Rachel Cooke anthologises