Friday Night with the Girls by Shari Low Book Review

Welcome to my review of Friday Night with the Girls by Shari Low.

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Synopsis

You should write it all down, Lou, so that your daughter can understand what happened. Everything. Right from the start. Lou Cairney’s life has never been dull. But through twenty years of ups, downs and really bad hairstyles, Lou has had the best friends a woman could hope for in Lizzy and Ginger. Growing up together, they shared their dreams and their disasters, broken hearts and career crashes and they survived it all thanks to love, hope and a large dollop of humour. And cocktails. Lots of cocktails. Until now. Lou needs her friends more than ever because her past has just caught up with her in a shocking way. Everyone makes mistakes in life – but Lou has just discovered that she might have made the biggest one of all.

About The Author

In January 2022, Shari Low celebrated 21 years since the publication of her first novel, What If?. Shari went on to be a best-selling novelist, publishing over 30 books, including My One Month Marriage, One Day In Summer, One Summer Sunrise, The Story Of Our Secrets and her non-fiction collection of parenthood memories, Because Mummy Said So.

In late 2020, her first novel, What If?, was updated and re-published. In January 2021, the sequel, What Now? was released, followed in April 22 by the third book in the series, What Next?. All three novels became international best sellers.

In real life, once upon a time she met a guy, got engaged after a week, and twenty-something years later she lives near Glasgow with her husband and a labradoodle. Her two teenagers have now left home, so she spends an inordinate amount of time on video calls checking if they’re eating well and keeping up to date with their laundry.

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My Review

Lou, Lizzie, and Ginger have been best friends since school. As they have grown up together, they know everything about each other but have gone their own ways as they’ve got older. The book opens as they are sitting in a swanky hotel in Glasgow, celebrating their thirtieth birthday together, and we quickly see that they are reminiscing about their lives. There is obviously something big going on, but we don’t get to see what until the end of the book.

From where we began in 2008, we flip back and forth through flashbacks to different times in their lives. Their ups and downs, love lives, marriages, trials, and tribulations. This lovely trip down memory lane is peppered with music, Tv, films and fashions, which are relatable and fun to look back on. There are a lot of critical moments in each of their lives, none of which have turned out quite as they had expected.

The characters were fun in different ways, so there was someone relatable for most people, and they were well developed. The relationships between the characters are also lovely. They are true friends who are always there for each other through everything.

The ending was different to what I had imagined and was as delightful as the rest of the book.

Rated