The friends every women needs
True friends scoop us up when we’re down and cheer us on throughout life. When I arrived in London, aged 20, to start a new job, I fell in with a bunch of young women. We’re all in our 50s now, and each of us is very different, which is perhaps as it should be. As life coach Carole Ann Rice puts it, ‘it’s unrealistic to expect one friend to be everything to you. I look upon my own friendships as a sort of composite quilt.’
