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Between Friends

by Debbie Macomber

A friendship across different lives

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A friendship across different lives

Jillian Lawton and Lesley Adamski begin as close friends in 1960s Washington State, despite sharply different family backgrounds. As adulthood carries them along contrasting paths—one toward early marriage and family responsibilities, the other through college and legal work—their bond remains a constant. The story spans marriage, children, divorce and widowhood, tracing how friendship can hold space for both hardship and happiness across years and distance. Its focus on two women’s changing circumstances gives the novel a broad view of adult life, with friendship linking experiences that might otherwise seem far apart.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in contemporary romance centered on enduring friendship.
  • Those who enjoy stories following women through marriage, parenthood, divorce and widowhood.
  • Readers drawn to fiction about contrasting backgrounds and life paths.

Themes

Enduring friendshipClass and backgroundWomen’s life experiencesMarriage and familyLife’s hardships and joys

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Book overview

Jillian Lawton and Lesley Adamski. Two girls from very different backgrounds. Jillian is the only child of wealthy parents, while Lesley's from a working-class family. They become best friends in the turbulent '60s, but their circumstances, their choices--and their mistakes--take them in virtually opposite directions. Lesley stays in their Washington State hometown. She gets pregnant and marries young, living a life defined by the demands of small children, not enough money--never enough money--and an unfaithful husband. Jill lives those years in a completely different way: on a college campus shaken by the Vietnam War, and then as an idealistic young lawyer in New York City.

But they always remain friends.

Through the years and across the miles, through marriage, children, divorce and widowhood, Jill and Lesley confide everything to each other--every grief and every joy. Because the quality of a friendship is the quality of a life.

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