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Product details
| Published | 27 Sep 2022 |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 336 |
| ISBN | 9781526647696 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Dimensions | 216 x 135 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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A profound novel about friendship. I loved it to pieces
MADELINE MILLER
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A shining tour de force about a long friendship's respects, disrespects, loyalties and moralities. Shamsie never compromises. This novel is of a rare quality, and even more evidence of her ability to write fiction that's simultaneously vividly alive to its time and so good and true that it's as if it has always been with us.
ALI SMITH, GUARDIAN, Summer Books 2022
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It is a rare writer who can examine with such insight and tenderness the forces that bind us to certain moments in life, and do it in language that is both precise and exquisite, expansive and attuned to the tiniest emotional detail. Kamila Shamsie has done it again in this magnificent, profoundly moving novel. Best of Friends is compulsive reading, and a reminder that in the end, the strongest force is always love
MAAZA MENGISTE
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The human heart can harbour deeply hidden contradictions. Here Kamila Shamsie brilliantly unearths the darker emotions that can live beneath the surface of a friendship - virtue laced with venality and love poisoned with the sugared toxins of envy and even hate. A disturbing and carefully crafted novel of rich psychological insight
BARONESS HELENA KENNEDY QC
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Friendship and power collide in Best of Friends
GUARDIAN, BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2022
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A new Kamila Shamsie novel is always worth celebrating, but Best of Friends is something else: an epic story that explores the ties of childhood friendship, the possibility of escape, the way the political world intrudes into the personal, all through the lens of two sharply drawn protagonists
OBSERVER, BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2022













