'A very funny and brilliant book. Feigel does a thorough and virtuosic job of describing the dilemmas of contemporary middle-class women' Rachel Cusk
The five of them - Stella, Priss, Kay, Helena and Polly - met at university, their lives full of lazy afternoons and late nights. Friendship seemed simple and there was such pleasure in the endless talk and in just living alongside each other.
Now the women are turning forty and they're finding that a shared past can sometimes be a burden. They're all struggling to navigate the ways in which their lives have differed from the plans they made themselves and the hopes they had for each other. In the past, solidarity came easily, but now they compare lovers, husbands, jobs, children and sofas, asking how the choices they've made or failed to make hold up.
As marriages end and secrets emerge, they wonder whether these people, the ones who know so much about them, are really the ones they can confide in.
Publisher: John Murray Press
ISBN: 9781529305012
Number of pages: 336
Weight: 240 g
Dimensions: 196 x 128 x 26 mm
A very funny and brilliant book. Feigel does a thorough and virtuosic job of describing the dilemmas of contemporary middle-class women - Rachel Cusk
An elegant, vivid, fascinating novel, with a profound vision of these lives and this moment in our culture. Pure pleasure - Tessa Hadley
The mix of caustic insights and sudden tenderness make the group dynamics arrestingly real. I can't remember the last time I consumed a novel so hungrily - Guardian
The Group works because there is nothing self-satisfied in its tone . . . The mix of caustic insights and sudden tenderness make the group dynamics arrestingly real - Observer
Feigel shows all this to attentive readers in a novel playing with its own fictitiousness a clear statement of the novel's timely and clever investigation of otherness and sameness - Guardian Review
Thought-provoking . . . with flashes of brilliant perception - Daily Telegraph
A clever, modern book - The Times
The humour is sharply observed, drily delivered and laced with ruefulness. While Feigel articulates her characters' fears with sensitivity, she also illustrates their lack of self-awareness and limits of experience with angry frustration that makes for a claustrophobic, often deeply uncomfortable and sometimes agonising picture - Financial Times
Crisp and clever - TLS
A group of women have been friends since university. Now turning forty, they assess where they are in their lives.
A closely observed slice of life from the perspective of educated, white, metropolitan middle-class...
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I managed to finish this book, but it was very hard going. I really did not enjoy this book at all! I didn’t like...
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I wanted to like this novel - no, I wanted to love it, but in the end it was just okay.
This is the story of a group of female friends; these women have knows each other for a couple of decades and are now about to...
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