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    The Best of Friends: Two Women, Two Continents, and One Enduring Friendship

    By Sara James and Ginger Mauney

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    From sharing secrets as children to chasing unconventional dreams as adults, network correspondent Sara James and wildlife filmmaker Ginger Mauney explore their learning curve on life through the lens of their thirty-year friendship

    Transplanting southern roots to southern Africa, Ginger Mauney has earned the acceptance of a troop of baboons, unraveled mysteries of life and death in an elephant herd, and raised her young son in the wilds of Namibia—but has often felt the pull of the country she once called home. As a local television anchor, Sara James paid her own way to cover the war in Nicaragua, a gamble that later propelled her to NBC. At the network, James exposed slavery in Sudan and plunged to the gravesite of the Titanic, but struggled to balance her demanding career with marriage and motherhood.

    Though the two lead seemingly opposite lives, there is much they share: a hometown in Richmond, Virginia, an attraction to life on the razor's edge, a weakness for men with foreign passports and accents, and a past. Now, in their heartfelt memoir, Mauney and James alternately narrate the story of how, they, two women separated by thousands of miles, have found themselves bound together through temperament, circumstance, and serendipity. The Best of Friends uses the example of their lives to explore such universal questions as: When your heart is broken, how do you heal? How do you realize your dreams without compromising yourself? How do you tame ambition to make room for love and family? And what does it mean as an adult to be a "best" friend?

    The Best of Friends is James and Mauney's story, but it is also the story of so many women in their twenties, thirties, and forties who, with the help of friends, dared to reinvent their lives just when it seemed that everything was falling apart.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 13, 2009
    ISBN9780061844669
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    • 4/5
      When one couple's marriage ends, the results snowball through a small English town. Sophy, the couple's 16- year old, smart and sensitive daughter is particularly disoriented and feels abandoned by her father who leaves home. Fortunately, her unconventional, creative and wise grandmother Vi lives in town and helps provide space and sanity. Gus, her younger friend and his family are accommodating and supportive as well. I've always enjoyed Trollope's masterful storytelling about the intricacies of families, friends and relationships in general. The Best of Friends is another winner.
    • 3/5
      The main protagonist is sixteen-year-old Sophy. Her parents seem to spend most of their time arguing, and it’s become increasingly bitter...

      The bulk of the book takes place in just a couple of months. Sophy is a likeable girl, although I never felt that I really got to know her. Joanna Trollope isn’t the greatest at characterisation; nevertheless the situations and descriptions of events managed to pull on my emotions quite strongly.

      The writing is terse and well-paced, the conversations mostly believable; places and appearances are described with just enough sensory detail to make them memorable without so much as to become boring.

      While there’s a sense in which this is a coming-of-age story for Sophy, it’s also classic women’s fiction of the kind that could be enjoyed by older teenage bookworms as well as adults. There’s some ‘strong’ language, but although plenty of bedroom scenes are mentioned, there are, thankfully, no details.

      Three and a half stars would be fairer.
    • 3/5
      Oddly bleak and unfocussed, the story of two marriages, an older couple and the younger generation whose lives are all turned to chaos when one husband decides to leave one wife. Nicely written but it hops about from person to person and generation to generation - which might be what life is like however art demands something more. Not my favourite Joanna Trollope.
    • 5/5
      Gina and Laurence had been childhood friends and were the best of friends as adults. They were never in love with each other, just the best of friends. Now, Gina was married to the worldly Fergus (who had changed his name from Leslie) and Laurence was married to Hilary. Both had children and seemingly idyllic lives.Then, Fergus told Gina that he wanted a divorce. She was shattered and turned to Laurence for understanding; but what Laurence did for Gina endangered his own happy family. I loved this story. I thought it was very engrossing and I give it an A+!
    • 2/5
      The storyline was interesting but the characters flat. I could not understand their motivation behind their actions and would have enjoyed a bit more development of at least one or two of them.
    • 3/5
      gave me insight into children's reactions to divorce, and placed into words some of my own "feelings" that I had yet been unable to express...it made me sad