![]() ![]() Kelly portrays their burgeoning friendship, and Biba's magnetic personality, with so much depth and sensitivity, it simply becomes a portrait of a friendship formed instantly and intensely, in much the same way as a passionate love affair might occur.Īs well as Biba and Karen, the book revolves round a small group of characters enjoying a summer of freedom. Taking a strong dislike to such a central character can be problematic for the reader, but in this case, it doesn't matter. Biba is the kind of woman that most of us have met and that, I for one, would certainly take against immediately in real life. The story moves seamlessly from the present day back to the summer when Karen and Biba first became friends. At the start of that summer, she could never have predicted just how indelible the mark left by the friendship would turn out to be. As Karen embarks on this friendship, she collects all kinds of new experiences along the way. ![]() But then she meets Biba, who opens doors to a world she's never seen before, and to the type of intense friendship that she's never experienced either. Karen is ending her university years and has her future mapped out. ![]()
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