Written by the UK Editor of Vogue, a book - about how the future is never what you think it will be - that will stay with you for ages …
A "Piece of Passion" from the publisher...
'It’s one thing to edit a national magazine, or even write articles and features, but quite another to launch a novel. If there is one thing editing Vogue has taught Alexandra Shulman over twenty years, it’s understanding what women want. CAN WE STILL BE FRIENDS follows the lives of three young women in the 1980s who face all the trials and tribulations of every young woman who is starting adult life. It’s about the importance to those women of female friendship; of the difficulties of finding out what you want to do with your life; how women do carve out their lives – with their careers and with their relationships -- in these incredibly important years. I don’t think this is a book Alex could have written when she was that age – it needs the passage of time to understand what was going on in that exciting decade and to forge that empathy with those young women. It’s warm, funny, and touching. I do hope you enjoy it.' Juliet Annan Publishing Director, Fig Tree & Penguin.
It's the summer of 1983 and best friends, Salome, Annie and Kendra have left university to embark on adulthood. Three very different girls with very different paths ahead: Sal, the aspiring journalist whose personal demons threaten to destroy everything she has achieved; Annie, the capable domestic beauty, convinced that marriage will give her everything she wants; and, Kendra, the daughter of chic, liberal parents who, searching for her own identity, encounters a life she never expected. As they navigate the decade of ra-ra skirts and shoulder pads, Duran Duran and Margaret Thatcher, they discover that the future is what happens to you, not what you plan. This interwoven tale of three best friends captures brilliantly what it is to learn the exhilarating and painful truths about love, work, family and the ties of friendship.
Alexandra Shulman has edited British Vogue since 1992. She is contributor to The Times, Daily Mail, Guardian and Daily Telegraph and lives in London. The Parrots is her second novel; Can We Still Be Friends, Was published by Fig Tree in 2012..
