Posted on 17/05/08
Girls' nights out
FRIDAY NIGHTSBy Joanna TrollopeMcArthur & Company, 328 pages, $24.95Contemporary domestic fiction is rife with novels about groups of strangers whose lives intersect when they meet in pursuit of a common interest, whether that's learning conversational Italian (Maeve Binchy's Evening Class), discussing 19th-century novels (Karen Fowler's The Jane Austen Book Club) or intending to commit suicide on New Year's Eve (Nick Hornby's A Long Way Down). The concept is popular because it gives authors multiple characters to create plot within a tidy structure, while providing readers with entertainment and enlightenment in the shape of multiple dilemmas and situations that the characters undergo.
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