Looking through history and Hollywood, real life and fiction, they get to the heart of relationships between women. Somewhere in the meaning of the word 'trust' is the assumption that a friend has your best interest at heart. Friends can be the collaborators, the instigators who make change possible. They are often the ones who urge us to take a leap, who jump with us or help us scramble back up the other side. Throughout the book, there is an ongoing dialogue between Ellen and Pat that is sure to resonate with every woman who cherishes her female friends.
Talk is at the very heart of women's friendship, the core of the way women connect.
It's the given, the absolute assumption of friendship. It can be serious or funny, painful or exuberant, intense or joyous. Ellen Goodman is an Associate Editor of The Boston Globe and writes a syndicated column that appears in more than 400 newspapers. Author of several books, including Turning Points and Close to Home , she lives in Boston, Massachusetts. Patricia O'Brien has written the novels Good Intentions, The Ladies' Lunch, and The Candidate's Wife, as well as two nonfiction books, Staying Together and The Woman Alone.