The Best of Friends (36 page)

Sophy always paused, on the opposite pavement, and looked at High Place. She could look at it quite easily now and without even a twinge of longing or regret. It had been her childhood home after all, the home of a certain, now finished, period of her life, the place where she had lived all those years before she grew into herself, before the friends began.

THE END

Joanna Trollope has written several highly-acclaimed contemporary novels:
The Choir, A Village Affair, A Passionate Man, The Rector's Wife, The Men and the Girls, A Spanish Lover, The Best of Friends, Next of Kin, Other People's Children, Marrying the Mistress, Girl from the South
and
Friday Nights
.
Other People's Children
has been shown on BBC television as a major drama serial. Under the name of Caroline Harvey, she writes romantic historical novels. She has also written a study of women in the British Empire,
Britannia's Daughters
.

THE CHOIR

A VILLAGE AFFAIR

A PASSIONATE MAN

THE RECTOR'S WIFE

THE MEN AND THE GIRLS

A SPANISH LOVER

THE BEST OF FRIENDS

NEXT OF KIN

MARRYING THE MISTRESS

GIRL FROM THE SOUTH

BROTHER & SISTER

SECOND HONEYMOON

and published by Black Swan

By Joanna Trollope writing as Caroline Harvey

LEGACY OF LOVE

A SECOND LEGACY

PARSON HARDING'S DAUGHTER

THE STEPS OF THE SUN

LEAVES FROM THE VALLEY

THE BRASS DOLPHIN

CITY OF GEMS

THE TAVERNERS' PLACE

and published by Corgi Books

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THE BEST OF FRIENDS

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Version 1.0 Epub ISBN: 9781409011514

First published in Great Britain in 1995 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Black Swan edition published 1996

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