Girl Time: A Celebration of Chick Flicks, Bad Hair Days & and Good Friends

by Laura Jensen Walker

A Celebration of Chick Flicks, Bad Hair Days and Good Friends

176 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2004

About the author

Award-winning author Laura Jensen Walker has written several books, including the Lefty nominated historical fiction, DEATH OF A FLYING NIGHTINGALE. Dubbed "riveting and affecting" by NYT bestselling author Susan Elia MacNeal, this book spotlights a group of real-life overlooked women heroes--the Flying Nightingales--from WWII. An Air Force veteran formerly stationed in the UK, Laura had the great honor of interviewing the last living Flying Nightingale, before she passed.

Bibliophile Laura fell in love with mysteries after reading Trixie Belden in the fourth grade, Her cozy mystery debut, MURDER MOST SWEET (2020) was nominated for an Agatha Award, and her next cozy, THE ALPHABET SLEUTHS, releases in Feb. 2026. Publishers Weekly says about the book: "Walker's feisty, funny, and fully realized seniors easily sit beside the casts of THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB and THE MARLOW MURDER CLUB in the coy pantheon. Readers will be charmed."

THE POSTMISTRESS OF PUDDLINGTON, Laura's second historical novel, features women on the home front in WWII England and releases in August 2026. She is currently at work on a women's fiction novel (aka book club fiction.)

Laura flew a typewriter across Europe in Uncle Sam's Air Force in her twenties, and lived in England for three years where she became a lifelong, tea-loving Anglophile. Shenow lives in Northern California with her Renaissance-man husband and their two rescue pups.

Reviews

[Andrea · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am a big fan of this book. I read it many years ago and it took on a whole new feel to me today, as a woman and a mother who has relocated from my "home" base in NYC to Down South in NC. It's a new perspective when I can't turn the corner and find a friend I grew up with or a friend from college.

It's a great reminder that there are so many kinds of girlfriends out there, and whatever you may share in common, whether it is history, plans, loves, likes, dislikes, goals or dreams, if you're able to connect and stay connected that is what matters the most.

[Melissa (Semi Hiatus Until After the Holidays) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute book with ideas of different activities and cute stories about friendship. Not particularly groundbreaking or original, but nothing offensive.

[Melinda Bollinger · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this book based on two women with a great friendship that takes them down many roads!

[Grace Shafer · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book was boring.