What Friends Are For
About
When the mask breaks, what lies beneath?
For twenty-one-year-old Tracy Dodd, the stress and loneliness of parenting a toddler are matched only by the boredom. There’s not much to do in small town Cromwell, Central Otago, and when you’re living paycheck to paycheck, the options are even fewer. So when Tracy receives an unexpected call from fellow mother-of-one, the beautiful and elegant Kate Hensley, she jumps at the chance to get out of the house and share the company of another woman. But Kate is everything Tracy isn’t, and she finds herself questioning Kate’s motives in extending the invitation. When a chance meeting turns their expedition sour, Tracy gets her answer, but it’s not one she’s expecting…
A fascinating tale of human faults, fears, and frailty, What Friends Are For is the fourth instalment in a series of surprising and darkly humorous short stories. While loosely connected, each story in the saga stands alone and they can be read in any order. If you like relatable characters, amusing dialogue, and action spiced with both comedy and drama, then you’ll love J.B. Reynolds’s Crossing the Divide short story series.
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Praise for this book
Small town girls from opposite sides of life find common ground in this short story of two young mothers and loneliness. Reynolds has a keen eye for observing real life and its impact on real people, and an apt style for sharing his observations. Well worth the read.
Full of brilliant and darkly funny turns of phrase. Reynolds is a fine craftsman of short stories and really has a way to make you cheer for the ‘hero’, even if they’re not always likeable.
Reynolds creates two extremely different female characters and shows us that life isn’t perfect, nor is life terrible, despite what we may see on the outside. This had everything I was looking for… definitely worth the read.