{"product_id":"the-virago-book-of-friendship-by-rachel-cooke-9780349018430","title":"The Virago Book of Friendship","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA fond, fascinated look at women's friendship through the fiction, diaries, and letters of friends\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA highly entertaining, often instructive anthology bursting with every kind of amicable - or inimical - anecdote... Cooke has dug deep and uncovered nuggets of pure gold in every form of writing... a delicious book about the great power and strength of real friendship\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eTABLET\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFriendship, a timeless subject, has never been more debated, something that has to do both with the internet - the perils of WhatsApp groups, the agony of ghosting - as well as with a growing awareness that loneliness is increasing in our society. Friendship has become a matter of urgent inquiry to therapists, scientists, and sociologists. We understand its importance more and more, not only as a comfort and a privilege but as vital to our health. But it's hard to get inside friendship: its particular intensity and its miraculous ease; its tendency to wax and wane; its ability to inspire both delight and despair.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the territory of novels and poems, diaries and letters, comics and graphic novels - and it is where the innovative and wide-ranging \u003cem\u003eThe Virago Book of Friendship\u003c\/em\u003e steps in, bringing together work by more than 100 writers. From Jane Austen to Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf, from Dolly Alderton to Sarah Waters and Meg Wolitzer, it celebrates and investigates friendship between women from first encounters to final goodbyes, from falling out to making up again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47071464882412,"sku":"9780349018430","price":44.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/09b8669b99ffc4e769e1147f2f821be4.jpg?v=1765053223","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-virago-book-of-friendship-by-rachel-cooke-9780349018430","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}