The fact is that a woman friend is as rare as a true love’- Elena Ferrante.
When I was a child, my mum had a very beautiful friend. She was exotically Irish with an accent. She was fashionable and had a name I’d only ever seen in a book. Her home was filled with all the things I had long felt sure would transform my life if I was lucky enough to acquire them, i.e. things I’d seen on tv.
Gillian O’Shaughnessy 