MAKING HER DEBUT


When You and Me Were Us, the debut novel by Amanda Reynolds, shows nothing lasts forever. The summary says: "Six friends. Thirty years of shared history. One, final, reunion. But how much do they really know of one another's lives? 1982: Dylan and his best friend Matty meet Alex and Ginny at university. Dylan, the epicentre of the gang, introduces them to Lois, his power-suited ambitious girlfriend, and socially inept Nick, whom no one is claiming allegiance to. A halcyon year ensues, filled with loves found and lost. Friendships are cemented which should have lasted a lifetime. Then Dylan dies. Through university, marriages, affairs, parenthood and even death, the friends try to make sense of their lives and their own route to happiness whilst Dylan watches, acerbically commenting on the high and lows of the lives which beat on after his has so inexplicably ended." When You and Me Were Us is out in September 2014.

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