title: The Friendship Diaries: Book 1 Palmerstone
author: Fischer, Sarah Bevan
description: The first of
  four books in this sweeping saga romance follows the lives and loves of
  four young women.
  Penny, an
  only child, longs to be swept off her feet, marry, and have lots of clever and
  beautiful children, live happily ever after in a cottage with roses around the
  door; she is well on the way to living the dream with the wonderful Charles but
  will it all end in tears?
  Caitlin, a
  Park Avenue Princess, shops and parties as she seeks the man of her family's
  expectations; a tragedy leads her to Paris and into the arms of a hot handsome
  Frenchman but would her family approve her illicit love?
  Rebecca
  thinks sex is over-rated and intends to build a fashion empire; on her way to
  realising her ambition she inadvertently falls for the frankly gorgeous Dylan
  but is he as he appears or is he hiding a dark secret?
  Suzanne sets
  out to reach the top in a male dominated career she decides to eschew marriage
  and children in favour of power and independence but is she strong enough to
  succeed?
   Set against a backdrop of London, Paris, New
  York and rural England the girls start out in pursuit of their goals with mixed
  and unexpected results.  The one constant
  is each other as their lives are cast asunder, hopes are realised at the same
  time as dreams are shattered; the four friends are always there for each
  other.