Best of Friends

SKU: 9781526647719
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Best of Friends

SKU: 9781526647719
Author: Kamila Shamsie
Paperback·Ages 18+·Literary Fiction
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At a glance

🖤 Tone
Emotional, intelligent, quietly suspenseful
⚡ Pace
Steady, character-driven
🌍 Vibes
Lifelong friendship, political tensions, cultural identity, hidden resentments, social privilege
✨ Themes
Friendship, loyalty, betrayal, identity, class, power
🧠 Emotional Journey
Thought-provoking, bittersweet, emotionally layered
📖 Hook
A lifelong friendship shaped by shared history and buried tensions is tested by ambition, politics, and the complicated realities of adulthood
💫 Perfect For
Readers who enjoy literary fiction exploring friendship, identity, and social dynamics with emotional depth

Sometimes it was as though the forty years of friendship between them was just a lesson in the unknowability of other people.

Maryam and Zahra.

In 1988 Karachi, two fourteen-year-old girls are a decade into their friendship, sharing in-jokes, secrets, and a love for George Michael. As Pakistan's dictatorship falls and a woman comes to power, the world suddenly seems full of possibilities. Elated by the change in the air, they make a snap decision at a party.

That night, everything goes wrong, and the two girls are powerless to change the outcome.
Zahra and Maryam.

In present-day London, two influential women remain bound together by loyalties, disloyalties, and the memory of that night, which echoes through the present in unexpected ways. Now both have power, and both have very different ideas of how to wield it - Their friendship has always felt unbreakable; can it be undone by one decision?

Book details

Format
Paperback
Reading age
18+
Pages
336
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Published
1 September 2009
Language
English
ISBN
9781526647719

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