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Need some holiday reading ideas...?
Posted on 08 Jul 2011
...then look no further than Red's Top Ten Beach Reads . Pick your favourites from a stellar list including Siri Hustvedt's deceptively slim The Summer Without Men and Anne Patchett's latest,...
Posted on 25 Jun 2011
Last week I was on the Vanessa Show on Channel 5 with the lovely Adele Parks . We were meant to be debating the concept of Fr-amily ie whether friends are the new family. I was saying we create...
Posted on 22 Jun 2011
That was the question we set out to answer last night at the Red Network event on Finding Your Passion (and making it pay) at London's Hospital Club. For the first time, instead of asking the...
Fancy a snoop around my house? PLUS Event...
Posted on 07 Jun 2011
Well, here's your chance - in the new issue of Red (july), on sale now, I subject myself to the This Life slot. And, honestly, I had no idea what I was letting myself in for. I am full of...
Can your husband be your best friend?
Posted on 06 Jun 2011
That's the seemingly innocent question I set out to answer when I offered to write a feature for The Times' T2 section this week on that very subject.
Friendship, and all its many forms, lies at the centre of To My Best Friends, so I wanted to explore all aspects of it - not just the relationship between Nicci, Mona, Lizzie and Jo (the female characters who make up the book's heart) but also the male character, David, who is so much more than 'just' Nicci's husband. As the other women discover as the story progresses.
Pretty harmless, I thought. Not least because researchers are always banging on about the fact that most successful marriages are usually founded on friendship.
Oh-ho ho ho. How wrong can you be?!
So, in answer to the question, is your husband your best friend? My answer would be: yes, Jon is my best friend (which is not to say I don't have a group of great girlfriends that I rely on for pink wine and chats and, you know, validation) and I'm proud!
Find out what a can of worms that opened here. (I apologise in advance, if you can't get past the Times paywall. I'll find a way to post the pdf soon.)