Product Description

There are good friends. Then there are best friends.

Cate Wishart and Margie Holland shared some traumatic teenage years and left school promising to be best friends forever. But two decades later they’ve drifted to opposite ends of the country and communicate only through Christmas cards.

Cate’s married to a doctor desired by every woman that meets him and mother to three lively girls. But she’s drowning in domesticity, starved of her husband’s affection, and yearning for a life of her own.

Margie’s a senior news producer who deals deftly with everything that live TV can throw at her, yet can’t control her drinking or her tele-shopping compulsion. Unmarried, her affair with the network’s star correspondent (who has a girl in every war zone) is going nowhere…

Until a class reunion brings Cate and Margie back together, reminding them how much fun a best friend can be and sending their lives in surprising new directions…

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #600360 in Books
• Published on: 2007-06-14
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 400 pages

Woman on MOTHER'S DAY
`Perfect read!'

Review

'Sharp, intelligent and moving; and I suspect many women will recognise parts of themselves within these pages, just as they did in Allison Pearson's I Don't Know How She Does It.'

(Herald on MOTHER'S DAY )

‘It’s warm, energetic and frequently laugh-out-loud funny. It’s also sad and pleasingly difficult, avoiding the easy answers to all the dilemmas it throws up... An impressive first work’

(Stirling Observer on MOTHER'S DAY )

'A funny and moving story of upper-middle-class angst at the beginning of the 21st century and a reflection on the importance of friends’

(Good Book Guide )

'A warm, honest look at life as a modern mother'

(Kate Bradley, Bookseller on MOTHER'S DAY )

'A strong debut'

(Publishing News on MOTHER'S DAY )

‘Perfect read!’

(Woman on MOTHER'S DAY )

Good Book Guide on MOTHER'S DAY
'A funny and moving story of upper-middle-class angst at the beginning of the 21st century and a reflection on the importance of friends'

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Customer Reviews

A nice read...
I think I was perhaps expecting a little more than was delivered from 'Between you and me'.
Traversing the very different lives of Cate and Margie, this novel is well written with fabulous one-liners peppered throughout. KS does a fine job at describing how two long-lost friends are reunited at just the right time in their lives to offer each other some much needed support.
My criticism is that I felt that not enough happened to warrant me really needing to read it! It was ok to flip open while in the bath but I was in no hurry to get back to it and it lay around for days without me thinking about it. To me, it was therefore pretty unremarkable. This is a shame as I liked her style and her characterisation was excellent. It will suit some people just fine, it just wasn't really meaty enough for my taste and I feel that the blurb and the tagline on the cover promised more than was delivered...

Wonderful
A wonderful new book by a very talented new author Between you and Me introduces you to two new friends that you just want to know more about. It is funny and at times heartbreakingly true to life.
If you enjoyed Mothers Day then pull up a chair, pour a glass of wine and settle yourself down for a jolly good gossip.

Strictly for the over 70s
Disappointing. The women are self obsessed martyrs and the men are cardboard cut outs. The various reviews refer to the humour being laugh out loud, I thought it was risible.
The traditional plot lines weave their clunky way to various unsatisfactory conclusions; no the sexy doctor husband/dad wasn't having an affair despite all the classic signs, he'd just suddenly gone impotent and was feeling coy about it. Well that's a comfort.
Written by someone who wouldn't waste their time reading this kind of stuff is my guess.