Bookends

<p>Jane Green, author of the best-sellers <i>Second Chance </i>and <i>Straight Talking</i>, examines friendships and their limits in her highly entertaining novel <i>Bookends</i>.<br><br><b>On the shelf, but still best friends . . .</b><br><br>Cath is scatty, messy and guarded. While Si is impossibly tidy, bitchy and desperate for a man of his own. They are total opposites - but equally unlucky in love. And they've stuck together through thick and thin. Because that's what best friends do.<br><br>So when their beautiful friend Portia - the undisputed queen of their group of friends at university - steps back into their lives, after a ten year gap, her reappearance tests both Cath and Si's friendship to the limit.<br><br>What does Portia want? Will she be a force for good in their lives, or something darker? And will Cath and Si ever get lucky in love?<br><br>'Funny and poignant - you'll devour it in one sitting' <i>Cosmopolitan </i><br><br>'Quick, witty, unputdownable and perfect beach reading' <i>Daily Mirror</i><br><br>'Hugely enjoyable' <i>Daily Express </i><br><br><br>Best selling author Jane Green has captured the imaginations of readers in the UK and the US with her frank and funny approach to those day-to-day issues that affect women everywhere. Other titles also published by Penguin include <i>The Other Woman</i>, <i>Jemima J.</i>, <i>Babyville</i>, <i>The Love Verb</i> (published as <i>Promises to Keep</i> in the USA), <i>Girl Friday </i>(<i>Dune Road</i>), <i>Life Swap</i> (<i>Swapping Lives</i>), <i>The Patchwork Marriage</i> (<i>Another Piece of My Heart</i>), <i>Spellbound </i>(<i>To Have and to Hold</i>), <i>The Beach House</i>, and <i>Mr. Maybe</i>.</p> <p>Jane Green, author of the best-sellers <i>Second Chance </i>and <i>Straight Talking</i>, examines friendships and their limits in her highly entertaining novel <i>Bookends</i>.<br><br><b>On the shelf, but still best friends . . .</b><br><br>Cath is scatty, messy and guarded. While Si is impossibly tidy, bitchy and desperate for a man of his own. They are total opposites - but equally unlucky in love. And they've stuck together through thick and thin. Because that's what best friends do.<br><br>So when their beautiful friend Portia - the undisputed queen of their group of friends at university - steps back into their lives, after a ten year gap, her reappearance tests both Cath and Si's friendship to the limit.<br><br>What does Portia want? Will she be a force for good in their lives, or something darker? And will Cath and Si ever get lucky in love?<br><br>'Funny and poignant - you'll devour it in one sitting' <i>Cosmopolitan </i><br><br>'Quick, witty, unputdownable and perfect beach reading' <i>Daily Mirror</i><br><br>'Hugely enjoyable' <i>Daily Express </i><br><br><br>Best selling author Jane Green has captured the imaginations of readers in the UK and the US with her frank and funny approach to those day-to-day issues that affect women everywhere. Other titles also published by Penguin include <i>The Other Woman</i>, <i>Jemima J.</i>, <i>Babyville</i>, <i>The Love Verb</i> (published as <i>Promises to Keep</i> in the USA), <i>Girl Friday </i>(<i>Dune Road</i>), <i>Life Swap</i> (<i>Swapping Lives</i>), <i>The Patchwork Marriage</i> (<i>Another Piece of My Heart</i>), <i>Spellbound </i>(<i>To Have and to Hold</i>), <i>The Beach House</i>, and <i>Mr. Maybe</i>.</p>