Friendaholic: THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BEST SELLER

Reviews

battleeditor

Friendships are what makes the world go round. I found it to be reflective and so relatable! I think it's because of her generous and compassionate way of looking at situations, which fans of her 'How to Fail' podcast will recognise. Platonic friendship between a man and a woman in Still Life (Ulysses and Evelyn!

Katy

How can we be a Best Friend? It’s definitely one of those books I couldn’t wait to pick up again after having to put it down. Day rightly points out that friendship as a subject has, for far too long, been treated as a Cinderella subject compared to romantic and even family relationships. Well, Day sets about redressing this imbalance with a vengeance, interspersing powerful and insightful chapters on various aspects of friendship—personified by her relationships with particular individuals—with short passages written by a variety of interesting, and often marginalised, people.

JOSH

A warm and empathetic exploration of friendship and how to assess what it means to you to be a Good Friend. The friends who would be there to share the fears, frustrations - boredom! Day freely admits that she has always been in pursuit of proving herself a Good Friend, even though that has sometimes come at an emotional cost.

Stephanie Edmeads

If you’re young, you’ll learn a lot about plotting a steady path in your future friendships. If, like me, you’re older, it will help you to unravel much of the confusion, frustration and, yes, grief you may have been carrying on your shoulders for far too long.

Alison W.

These are the people who I arranged to meet over Zoom for the weekly quiz, or the online Friday night after work drinks - or, once the lockdown restrictions began to ease, who I would venture out of the house to meet on park benches for a chat over a takeaway coffee. In summary, you’ll end up wanting to be Elizabeth’s friend, but also being okay with the fact that that’s not going to happen. And this is why, for me, the book has been so cathartic, and has delivered repeated punch-in-the-guts moments. Everyone should read this book.