A review by angrygreycatreads
City of Friends by Joanna Trollope

1.0

City of Friends by Joanna Trollope is a celebration of capitalism disguised as feminism. Heavy handed didactic prose revolving around four women whose petty grievances wouldn’t even cause the average woman to bat her eyes. One character, trying to reach her young teen daughter writes her a letter about the glory of work, how work will save you, how work is the greatest thing ever….made me instantly feel that the tagline for this book should be “lean in”. Perhaps I just don’t relate to the issues of the 1%. I have been trying Trollope because her work is recommended to me based on other women’s fiction that I have read, but it just hasn’t worked for me.