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Book SynopsisFrom the prize-winning author of Reasons to be Cheerful comes a story about the ebb and flow of female friendship over half a lifetime
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Susan and Norma have been best friends for years, at first thrust together by force of circumstance (a job at The Pin Cushion, a haberdashery shop in 1990s Leicestershire) and then by force of character (neither being particularly inclined to make friends with anyone else). But now, thirty years later, faced with a husband seeking immortality and No
