Days Like These

by Virginia Duigan

A hilarious and heartwrenching novel on pushing the boundaries between relationships and those certain friends with whom you don't have to pretend


 

Lou, a freelance journalist, leaves New York after the breakup of a long relationship. Taking refuge in a friend's North London house—the nerve-center for a group of old university friends—she becomes drawn into an escalating series of personal dramas in this searingly honest, undeniably amusing account of women behaving badly. It's about love and loyalty, deceit and disaster, and the onset of moral choices. In a world where you can touch most things, what—and who—is untouchable? Told with wit, humor, and sophistication,  Days Like These  tests the bonds between friends.

377 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2011

About the author

Virginia Duigan wrote the screenplay of the 1998 movie The Leading Man, starring Jon Bon Jovi, Thandie Newton and Barry Humphries. Before becoming a novelist, Duigan worked as a journalist, broadcaster, editor and TV scriptwriter. She was a regular feature writer on The National Times, and contributed documentaries to ABC radio. She was a freelance contributor to The Bulletin, The Age, The Australian, The Financial Review, Cinema Papers, and in London to the The Observer and The Times. She was Literary Editor of The National Times, and a theatre, book, film and restaurant reviewer.