Book 14 - Soft Love

Title: The Weekend

Author: Charlotte Wood

Genre: fiction

This is the story of women who have been friends for years and years and years, and as such, I can see this story in one of the many possible futures of my own group of friends.

It's not the one I hope for, though.

This is the story of old friendships. Friendships where you know the other people like you know your own body; you know how to foster and how to cut, and deep. I'll take my car, because you're a terrible driver. Much of the softness found in junior relationships has withered away, and what's left can bite. Not out of spite; no, it's more that over the years, the membrane we surround each other with has faded and now you rub directly against the other person and their hard, familiar edges.

Even now, weeks after having read this book, the languid sense of melancholy sweeps over me at just the thought of this story. I can't speak for any relationships except my own, but anyone with lasting, deep friendship in their lives will see something familiar in Wood's story as it unfolds not unlike a wave.

Build, build, build...and crash, as everything tumbles together and apart.

Rating: 🍓🍓🍓🍓