“Entertaining, fast-moving… breaking interesting new ground in an original way.” The Ottawa Citizen
“Sensitive, well-written and beautifully observed.” The Calgary Herald
“The way each [character] deals with her basic isolation is well worth the price of admission.” Minneapolis Star-Tribune
“The kind of novel about likable, intelligent, believable human beings with whom one can identify immediately,” said Publishers Weekly in its review of L.R. Wright’s last book, The Favourite. Now in her new novel, Among Friends, she again tells a beautifully quiet and moving story with characters readers will remember for a long time to come.
Among Friends explores the delicate and intricate emotions of three women who, without ever having expected to, find themselves totally alone in life, unaccompanied by a husband, a lover, or even a friend. Leona, Emily, and Marion are of different ages, but they have isolated and insulated themselves from the world in similar ways. How they are ultimately able to break through solitude and reach out to one another is the striking, haunting story of Among Friends – a novel filled with the special integrity readers and critics have come to expect from L.R. Wright.