A review by emmkayt
City of Friends by Joanna Trollope

3.0

What my kiddo calls a 'mom book.' Tells the story of four women friends in their 40s, foregrounding their relationships with their work, which I thought was neat, if a bit over laboured (oh, ha ha, didn't mean to make a pun). The interpersonal dilemmas were sometimes odd - I didn't understand what the big deal was with some developments that sent characters into a tizzy, and yet the author quickly dispatched the interesting struggle of one character dealing with her mother's dementia. Even so, it was a decent read, and I appreciate the effort to write about women's work lives and friendships.