Friends Like These

 Friends Like These

Reviewed By  Grasshopper2       July 30, 2022

 

Author  Meg Rosoff.

Distributor:      Bloomsbury YA Publishing
ISBN:                 9781526646118
Publisher:         Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date:   June 2022  

   Website:   https://www.bloomsbury.com

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MEG ROSOFF

New York City, 1983.” Remember this time.” This is what Beth tells herself as she arrives in the overwhelming heat, rubbish strewn, smelly streets of New York. She is dragging a suitcase and looking for her accommodation. You see Beth is doing an internship as a journalist and this is her first time in a big city. Everything is strange and oppressive, especially her small room.

Meg Rosoff has written a young adult novel which is fresh, interesting, and engaging in Friends Like These. Beth’s character is sensible and practical, but she will be dealing with a great many unknown situations. One of the many threads in this story deals with friendship.

Edie is another of the interns beginning work. She is smart, wealthy, and observant. She takes Beth under her wing and teaches her how to notice things, to seek out what is behind every door and how it relates to their job.

Beth has never met anyone like Edie, who is outwardly confident, but has been seeing a therapist for many years and has a bitter relationship with her mother. Edie is overawed by Beth’s good sense and uncomplicated thoughts. A deep friendship develops, but Beth is unused to the cunning and self-seeking attitude her friend gradually displays.

On so many levels this is almost a practical handbook for any young woman beginning a career and interacting with extremes of personalities. It is a rewarding read for any person interested in observing characters, and their development.

Fiction, Young Adult