A Time For Friends
Reviewed By Janet Mawdesley April 9, 2015
Author Patricia Scanlan
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ISBN: 9781471110818
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Website: http://www.simonandschuster.com.au
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Encapsulated within the pages is a wonderful look at friendship and what the cost can be, delivered with a wry wit and a depth of insight into people, love and simply living life.
We meet Hillary, a soul with a big heart, facing her own personal challenges, involved with brining up her young family, running the family lighting business and looking after an elderly mother-in-law. She is married to the love of her life and while enjoys her life sometimes feels she may be either over doing it or missing something. Perhaps regrets for the past she may have had if things had moved along in a different manner.
Colette is her long time best friends, bought up by parents who were career focused and spent little time with their only daughter. Spoiled and demanding she goes on to carve a career out in the world of Art, living the life that is far removed from Hillary’s. But the friendship still remains.
When Hillary meets Jonathon Harpur at a Lighting and Design conference more than a subtle shift occurs in the friendship between Colette and Hillary as there is now a third person added to the mix. Colette does not take too kindly to this and so the friendship changes ever so subtly, but enough to set Hillary to wondering just what this long-time friendship is really all about!
Set at the beginning of the ‘boom’ period in Ireland, Hillary and Jonathon decide to go into business together, combining their talents and become sought after for their interior designs.
Colette has always assumed that her friendship with Hillary was more important than anything else or anybody else, especially when she wanted something but when she discovers life does not always go the way she dictates, she also begins to revisit her version of their friendship.
Written with a good insight into people and their motives, the emotions which drive people to the edge and back and the changes that friendship, love and understanding can bring to a life, the story wraps around so many of the social issues and challenges raised in today’s world.
But can the friendship, which the years and changes have redefined, stand the test of the ultimate betrayal is yet to be discovered.
A lovely, totally enjoyable read which wraps you in warmth, finds you relating to various moments in your own life and also brings a chuckle along the way as you can so totally relate to the people, the dramas and the challenges that make up a lovely, enjoyable read on the couch.