The Virago Book of Friendship

A highly entertaining , often instructive anthology bursting with every kind of amicable - or inimical - anecdote . . . Cooke has dug deep and uncovered nuggets of pure gold in every form of writing: letters, diaries, poems, novels - conventional and graphic - children''s comics and even a newspaper agony aunt . . . this delicious book is about the great power and strength of real friendship , whether of besties at school, students sharing digs, suffragettes, WAAFs in freezing barracks, feminists, work colleagues or members of like-minded groups>

About the author

Rachel Cooke is an award-winning journalist and author. She writes for the Observer, and is the television critic of the New Statesman. Her book, Her Brilliant Career: Ten Extraordinary Women of the Fifties, was published by Virago in 2013. Her most recent book is Kitchen Person: Notes on Cooking & Eating.

Product details

• Authors: Rachel Cooke
• Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 04.09.2025
• EAN: 9780349018423
• ISBN: 978-0-349-01842-3
• No. of pages: 400
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Anthologies; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Friendship, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, Anthologies: general, Anthologies (non-poetry)