TRUE FRIENDS

A revealing and relatable memoir about the making and unmaking of friendships.

Friendships are among the most important relationships in our lives, often outlasting love affairs, marriages, even, at times, family connections. The loss of a friend can be one of life's most disturbing events, yet these 'friend break-ups' are little acknowledged in our culture.

In True Friends, acclaimed author Patti Miller recounts the joyful making and then painful ending of a long, close friendship. It is a deep
and influential relationship in her life, but when it inexplicably unravels, Patti is left searching for answers.As she tries to make sense of this ending, Patti considers other important friendships throughout her life, questioning who we are drawn to, what we really know of each other and why some friendships endure while others end.

Evocative and intimate, this engaging book brings together the personal and the universal and reminds us of the centrality of friendships in our lives.

Patti Miller was raised on Wiradjuri land in central western NSW and now lives in Sydney. She is the author of Writing Your Life, The Last One Who Remembers, Child, Whatever the Gods Do, The Memoir Book, the award-winning The Mind of a Thief, Ransacking Paris, Writing True Stories and The Joy of High Places. She has also taught memoir and creative non-fiction for many years around Australia and in Fiji, Bali, Paris and London.