Best of Friends Kelly, Cathy

Abby's got the career, Lizzie's got the family, and Jem's got the chaos — but no one's life is quite what it looks like. Three women, friends since school, now navigating their forties with varying degrees of grace. Abby's marriage is crumbling behind the perfect facade. Lizzie's drowning in domesticity and resentment. Jem's trying to hold it together after her husband walks out. Cathy Kelly writes contemporary women's fiction that's sharp on the realities of friendship, betrayal, and starting over. This isn't glossy escapism — it's the messy truth of what happens when the life you built stops fitting. The kind of book that makes you text your best friend halfway through. For fans of Marian Keyes' emotional honesty or anyone who's ever wondered if everyone else is just better at faking it.