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    The Friendship Test: A Novel

    By Elizabeth Noble

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    One late wine- and gossip-fueled night, four friends on a lark create a fateful test of friendship -- one that challenges the very principles and boundaries of their alliance. To pass it means to never, at any cost, betray one another. Twenty years later, they must face that ultimate test.

    We meet them at the dawn of their camaraderie in the 1980s and already each woman is distinguished from the other: Tamsin, the compassionate mother hen; Reagan, the brazen and clever overachiever; Sarah, the seemingly perfect beauty; and Freddie, who despite being far from her U.S. home, finds strength in her friends. We forward to today, and as promised they are still firm friends . . . that is until a crisis occurs and the principles that define their friendship test are challenged. Exquisitely rendered by Elizabeth Noble, The Friendship Test is a powerful testament to the depth and capacity of female relationships.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 6, 2009
    ISBN9780061983757
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    The Friendship Test: A Novel
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    Elizabeth Noble

    Mystery, action, chills, and thrills spiced with romance and desire. ELIZABETH NOBLE lives by the adage "I can't not write." She doesn't remember a time when she didn't make up stories and eventually she learned how to put words on a page. Those words turned into books and fan fiction that turned into a genuine love of M/M fiction. A part of every day is spent living in worlds she created that are filled with intrigue and espionage. She has a real love for a good mystery complete with murder and twisty plots as well as all things sci-fi, futuristic, and supernatural. When she's not chronicling the adventures of her many characters, Elizabeth is a veterinary nurse living in her native Cleveland, Ohio. She has three grown children and now happily shares her little, brick house with two spunky Cardigan Welsh Corgis and their feline sidekicks. Elizabeth is a fan of baseball, basketball (go Cavs and Guardians) and gardening. She can often be found working in her 'outside office' listening to classic rock and plotter her next novel waiting for it to be dark enough to gaze at the stars. Elizabeth has received a number of amateur writing awards. Since being published, several of her novels have received Honorable Mentions in the Rainbow Awards. Jewel Cave was a runner-up in the Gay Mystery/Thriller category in the 2015 Rainbow Awards. Ringed Love was a winner in the Gay Fantasy Romance category of the 2016 Rainbow Awards. Code Name Jack Rabbit and The Vampire Guard series placed third in The Paranormal Romance Guild 2022 Reviewer Awards in the LGBT/ROMANCE/ACTION ADVENTURE/MILITARY individual book and series categories.

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    • 2/5
      Friday, January 11, 2008


      Read this last night but I must admit I was disappointed.
      When you read the back you think this story is about 4 women.
      Well that is not true. It is mainly about Freddy, for me the less interesting of the 4 women.
      When I was nearly done with the book and I realised it would only be about her and not about the more interesting reagan, (still don't know what was up with her) I really felt the book let me down.

    • 3/5
      I was expecting another non-thinking book (which is why I actually LIKE chick lit) but was surprised that this Yaya sisterhood-like book would go so deeply into problems of marriage and children.

      More reality than expected, but not at all bad.

      Got a little lost with the names, and the story seemed to revolve on one of the four girls (in fact, what happened in her life was quite definitive for the others) - but hey, ok, ok, whatever.

      Read this if you want a more sobering Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.

    • 3/5
      I was expecting another non-thinking book (which is why I actually LIKE chick lit) but was surprised that this Yaya sisterhood-like book would go so deeply into problems of marriage and children.

      More reality than expected, but not at all bad.

      Got a little lost with the names, and the story seemed to revolve on one of the four girls (in fact, what happened in her life was quite definitive for the others) - but hey, ok, ok, whatever.

      Read this if you want a more sobering Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.

    • 4/5
      A can't put it down book , that i read over the weekend. i loved the subtitles with the Tenko camp. The story of 4 friends and the relationship they continued over 20 years through the ups and downs. They were there for each other
    • 3/5
      An easy read. Although this book was a little too 'chic lit' for me, I thought the character development was fairly good and the story line held my attention (for the most part and was only a little cheesy on the romance side of things). I think the ending was too drawn out though.This book, despite the reasons why I thought it was flawed, is perfect to curl up with on a rainy day drinking hot chocolate or something. This book comforted me, mainly because I felt like a couple of the characters could have been my friends or sisters, and because it really is a hopeful story about the love of friends/family. I think I may have been able to relate better to the characters if I was a little older, or a mother, because of life circumstances of the women in the story (motherhood, marriage, domestic life,etc).