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Elizabeth Noble (Author)
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December 27, 2005

One late wine- and gossip-fueled night, four friends on a lark create a fateful test of friendship -- one that challenges the very principles and boundaries of their alliance. To pass it means to never, at any cost, betray one another. Twenty years later, they must face that ultimate test.

We meet them at the dawn of their camaraderie in the 1980s and already each woman is distinguished from the other: Tamsin, the compassionate mother hen; Reagan, the brazen and clever overachiever; Sarah, the seemingly perfect beauty; and Freddie, who despite being far from her U.S. home, finds strength in her friends. We forward to today, and as promised they are still firm friends . . . that is until a crisis occurs and the principles that define their friendship test are challenged. Exquisitely rendered by Elizabeth Noble, The Friendship Test is a powerful testament to the depth and capacity of female relationships.


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Noble (The Reading Group) spins another compulsively readable yarn, guided by the cozily familiar conceit of lifelong friendship taking root among vastly different gals. This fab four, deftly rendered with a few pen strokes as distinct personalities—brassy American Freddie; doting, maternal Tasmin; beautiful, sensitive Sarah; and scholarly, serious Reagan—meet in Oxford in the '80s and nurse each other through heartache and calamity with soul-baring dish sessions and fervent avowals of friendship, calling themselves the Tenko Club. The divergent threads of their adult lives are destined to knot again in 2004, after Freddie suffers a double blow with her husband's affair and her estranged father's death. Her oldest friends rally to her cause, each in her own way—from caustic honesty to fierce protectiveness—though bouts of tragedy and betrayal threaten to unravel their bonds. The action spans England and America, with a sprawling, twisty plot that will appeal to readers in both places. Noble's tender wit depicts the love among friends as steadfast and magical as any romance. Breezy and heartwarming, the novel's beach-book disposition also makes for a cozy winter read.
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Adult/High School–Freddie, Tamsin, Sarah, and Reagan met at Oxford and quickly forged a bond that continued through careers, marriages, and children. Fast-forward 18 years to the day that Freddie gets a double whammy: her husband tells her that he is seeing someone else and wants a divorce; hours later, her fathers housekeeper calls from America to break the news of his death. So begins a story of friendship that captivates readers from the outset. Certainly, it is formulaic in places: as Freddie tries to come to terms with jarring life changes, she finds herself depending more and more on Sarahs widowed husband. But for the most part, Noble bestows enough imperfections in her characters and twists in the plot to take the story beyond typical romance fare. Readers will enjoy the appealing sketches of London, Cape Cod, and Boston as the friends travel across the Atlantic to help Freddie sort out the ramifications of her parents death. Nobles second novel solidifies her reputation as a graceful and stylish writer with the ability to blend the humor and complexities of everyday friendships.–Kim Dare, Fairfax County Public Library System, VA
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Product Details

  • Paperback: 448 pages
  • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; First U.S. Edition edition (December 27, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0060777745
  • ISBN-13: 978-0060777746
  • Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.3 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,081,850 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Elizabeth Noble is the internationally bestselling author of The Reading Group, The Friendship Test, Alphabet Weekends, and Things I Want My Daughters to Know. She lives in New York City with her husband and their two daughters.

 

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Passed the test, February 7, 2006
This review is from: The Friendship Test: A Novel (Paperback)
The Friendship Test opens with Freddie having a real bad day. First, she had to drop her son Harry off at his private school. Second, on the way home, her husband Adrian rang her cell phone to tell her that he is having an affair and is leaving her for someone else. Third, she gets a call from the states and was told that her estranged father just died.
Freddies two best friends, Tasmin and Reagan offer to go to the states with her to help sort things out with her fathers estate and just in time for the funeral, Matthew, the widowed husband of the fourth best friend, Sarah arrives.
While these four people are in the US, several secrets, truths and betrayals are revealed and friendships are put to the test.
If you enjoyed The Reading Group, I truly think you will also enjoy The Friendship Test. You will love Freddie, Tasmin, and Matthew and Reagan is someone you will love to hate.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The next best thing to being with my best girlfriends!, January 2, 2006
This review is from: The Friendship Test: A Novel (Paperback)
I really believe that women are healthiest and happiest when they have great girlfriends in their lives, not just spouses, jobs and/or children. Elizabeth Noble has captured this feeling so well in The Friendship Test, and along with the hilarity and candor of women's friendships, I got a fix of British humor, which I've come to need almost as much as chocolate since the Bridget Jones books. Noble is adept at sorting out the sometimes complicated dynamics of women's friendships and does so with both pithy humor and great insight. I was charmed to by the romance of the story, too, and the sweet image of Matthew carrying a torch for so long. I read this book in two sittings, and wanted to host a Tamsin-style lovefest dinner for all my girlfriends when I'd finished. You'll love it, too.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Friends , no matter what happens, January 6, 2006
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This marvelous book, THE FRIENDSHIP TEST by Elizabeth Noble, remindes me of a saying that my Mom used to tell me---"A friend is not a fellow who is taken in by shame, a friend is one who knows your faults and doesn't give a damn." Noble artfully uses the premise of an old World War II movie about women in a prison camp to characterize her main characters. Noble's characters love each other, commit to each other, forgive each other, and by all means accept each other. Though sometimes jealously rears it's ugly head and then how do friends respond?

THE FRIENDSHIP TEST shows us that no matter how you say it---and Noble says it masterfully and uniquely---friendships hold us up in fun, in pain, in failures, in every aspects of life, and sometimes in great book reads. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you will yell at some of the characters, but mostly, you will wish that this book never ends. Elizabeth Noble definitely "gets it". I now have a whole new cast of old friends!
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