Synopses & Reviews
"You'll definitely see elements of yourself and your girlfriends in this terrific novel," is how
Redbook described
Best Friends-which may explain why this first novel from an unknown author has been quietly building to a surprising hardcover success. It's the kind of book that is shared among friends, an instantly familiar and emotionally immediate story of two women who become college roommates, confidantes, and friends for life.
Clare, from a working-class Protestant family, has never met anyone like Sally: wealthy, pretty, and Jewish, barely emancipated from her close-knit Los Angeles family. Over the decades, Clare is drawn deeper into the circle of Sally's family-until she uncovers the kind of secret that no one wants to tell a best friend.
"A valentine to the staying power of women's friendships." (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
"She captures the feel of things, the complexity of human lives, and the ability of time to expose and to heal." (Josephine Humphreys, author of Nowhere Else on Earth)
"So freshly observed and gifted with such a powerful sense of the ravages of time that it feels utterly new...The book never loses its edge, at once compassionate and humorous." (Publishers Weekly, starred review)
Review
"A valentine to the staying power of women's friendships."
Cleveland Plain Dealer
”[A] terrific novel.”Redbook
"First novels that track a pair of friends from college days through their subsequent lives aren’t exactly uncommon, but Moody’s is so freshly observed and gifted with such a powerful sense of the ravages of time that it feels utterly new...The book never loses its edge, at once compassionate and humorous, nor its moving conviction that a strong friendship between women can be one of life’s most powerful relationships."Publishers Weekly (starred review)
”Moody is brilliant at exposing just how emotionally and morally complex a friendship can be.”Diane Vreuls, author of Are We There Yet?
"She captures the feel of things, the complexity of human lives, and the ability of time to expose and to heal."Josephine Humphreys, author of Nowhere Else on Earth
Synopsis
"You'll definitely see elements of yourself and your girlfriends in this terrific novel," is how
Redbook described
Best Friends-which may explain why this first novel from an unknown author has been quietly building to a surprising hardcover success. It's the kind of book that is shared among friends, an instantly familiar and emotionally immediate story of two women who become college roommates, confidantes, and friends for life.
Clare, from a working-class Protestant family, has never met anyone like Sally: wealthy, pretty, and Jewish, barely emancipated from her close-knit Los Angeles family. Over the decades, Clare is drawn deeper into the circle of Sally's family-until she uncovers the kind of secret that no one wants to tell a best friend.
"A valentine to the staying power of women's friendships." (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
"She captures the feel of things, the complexity of human lives, and the ability of time to expose and to heal." (Josephine Humphreys, author of Nowhere Else on Earth)
"So freshly observed and gifted with such a powerful sense of the ravages of time that it feels utterly new...The book never loses its edge, at once compassionate and humorous." (Publishers Weekly, starred review)
Synopsis
Martha Moody's national bestsellera compassionate and tender novel about best friends from college. A testament to the power of female friendship.
When Clare Mann arrives at Oberlin in 1973, shes never met anyone like Sally Rose. Rich and beautiful, Sally is utterly foreign to a middle-class, Midwestern Protestant like Clareand utterly fascinating. The fascination only grows when Sally brings her home to L.A. Mr. Rosecharismatic, charming, and owner of a profitable business shrouded in secreyis nearly as compelling a figure to Clare as he is to his own daughter. California seems like paradise after winters in Ohio. And Clare begins to look forward desperately to these visits, to carefree rides in Sallys Kharmann Ghia and lazy poolside days.
As the years pass, Clare becomes a doctor and Sally a lawyer, always remaining roommates at heart, a plane ride or phone call away. Marriages and divorces and births and deaths do not separate them. But secrets mightfor as Clare watches, the Rose family begins to self-destruct before her eyes. And the things she knows are the kinds of things that no one wants to tell a best friend.
About the Author
Martha Moody is the author of the national bestseller Best Friends and the novels The Office of Desire and Sometimes Mine. A practicing physician, she lives in Ohio with her family.