Goodreads asked Fanny Blake:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Fanny Blake Friendship is the central theme in With a Friend Like You. In this instance, I watched two friends of mine falling out over someting one of their children was supposed to have to another. That was the spark. In With a Friend Like You, I wanted to see how far you could push a long-term very close friendship between two women. I wanted to see if, once they had stopped speaking to each other altogether, whether it would be possible for them ever to be friends again. How would this war between the women affect their families? If they could recover from the rift, would their friendship have changed? Answer: Yes!

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