Pulitzer prize-winning columnist Ellen Goodman and
novelist-journalist Patricia O'Brien provide a thoughtful,
deeply personal look at the enduring bonds of friendship
between women.
Friends for twenty-seven years, they have
served as confessors and advisers to each other during
romantic, career, and child-raising crises, and have shopped
together, laughed together, and enjoyed a bond unlike any
other.
Drawing on interviews with numerous women, the
authors take readers into the heart of "the place where
women do the work of their lives, the growing, the
understanding, the reflection," and illuminate both the
fragility and strength of relationships that are
irreplaceable lifelines.