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'At once tough and tender, funny and sad, this beautifully written novel articulates the dynamic realities of those wondrous friendships that last a lifetime.' Siri Hustvedt
From youthful scrapes to mid-life turning points, the Old Friends have faced everything together.
So as Anna, their brightest spark, enters hospice, they gather to do what they've always done: they laugh and eat, and help each other make choices and plans, and talk through dilemmas with children and work and love.
But now the sense of time has shifted, and the pattern of their lives takes on a new, urgent meaning. As their shared experiences are recounted and re-lived, this funny, bittersweet ode to friendship shows how even in difficult endings, gifts can unfold.
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Redel's prose is artful and insightful ... this is a hugely moving celebration of love, life and friendship. (Eithne Farry S Magazine)
Terminal illness doesn't always bring out the best in people, nor does it preclude other sorrows. To find an honest and sympathetic reflection of both truths is refreshing. (Daily Mail)
Bittersweet (Grazia)
An extraordinary, touching and tender story about female friendship. (Prima Magazine)
A riveting celebration of life and death. (Elle Magazine)
Brings to mind Virginia Woolf's The Waves. (BBC Culture)
Poetic and insightful ... I have been blown away. (Laura Jane Williams, author of Becoming)
An unflinching and affecting look at how one woman's final days change the lives of those around her. (Publishers Weekly)
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Terminal illness doesn't always bring out the best in people, nor does it preclude other sorrows. To find an honest and sympathetic reflection of both truths is refreshing. (Daily Mail)
Bittersweet (Grazia)
An extraordinary, touching and tender story about female friendship. (Prima Magazine)
A riveting celebration of life and death. (Elle Magazine)
Brings to mind Virginia Woolf's The Waves. (BBC Culture)
Poetic and insightful ... I have been blown away. (Laura Jane Williams, author of Becoming)
An unflinching and affecting look at how one woman's final days change the lives of those around her. (Publishers Weekly)
Before Everything is an ode to friendship for readers of Anne Tyler, Kate Atkinson and Ann Patchett, full of dry humour, quiet wisdom and huge empathy.
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- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 1473651840
- ISBN 13 9781473651845
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