Friends Like These by Wendy Harmer, Allen & Unwin, $32.99.
Write what you know, is the standard advice to authors. And as a top-rating and high-earning radio presenter, Wendy Harmer spent long enough on Sydney’s so-called A-list to know it inside out.
Now she’s “ratting on it”, as she puts it, and a highly amusing ratting it is.
Set in the gilded eastern suburbs of Sydney (though every Australian city has its snooty equivalent), it is a coming-of-middle-age story, involving recently single mother-of-two Jo Blanchard, deputy head of an elite girls school until she disgraces herself, deliciously, at a school function.
She’s now rebuilding her life as a marriage celebrant — cue Khalil Gibran and Pachelbel’s Canon in D — while trying to sort her true friends from her false, sex from love and fun from trouble.
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