Old Lovegood Girls

<p><b>As always wry beady-eyed acute. -Margaret Atwood via Twitter</b><br><b><br>From the bestselling award-winning author of <i>Flora</i> and <i>Evensong</i> comes the story of two remarkable women and the complex friendship between them that spans decades.</b> <p/>When the dean of Lovegood Junior College for Girls decides to pair Feron and Merry as roommates in 1958 she has no way of knowing the far-reaching consequences of the match. Surrounded by the traditions and four-story Doric columns of Lovegood the girls--and their friendship--begin to thrive. But underneath their fierce friendship is a stronger stranger bond one comprised of secrets rivalry and influence--with neither of them able to predict that Merry is about to lose everything she grew up taking for granted and that their time together will be cut short. <p/>Ten years later life has led Feron and Merry into vastly different worlds. But when each woman finds herself in need of the other's essence that spark--that remarkable affinity unbroken by time--between them is reignited and their lives begin to shift as a result. Luminous and masterfully crafted Old Lovegood Girls is the story of a powerful friendship between talented writers two college friends who have formed a bond that takes them through decades of a fast-changing world finding and losing and finding again the one friendship that defines them.</p>