An excerpt from
"To the End of the Day"
‘So you love Anna more than me,’ says Paul accusingly.
‘I love her differently.’ Lizzie looks up at the irate face of her husband as he scowls from the doorway. ‘She’s a part of me. She’s joined to me in a spiritual way. We orbit round each other.’ Her face takes on an intent look as she tries to explain accurately the nature of her complex relationship with Anna. ‘She and I move in our different circles, and they sometimes come together and sometimes move apart. When they do come together it’s either blissful harmony or a disastrous collision.’
TO THE END OF THE DAY
is the author’s first novel.
Two women, two lives, lived separately but in a state of emotional dependency on each other for many years . . . but now on the verge of – what?
Anna, a writer with a first book about to be published, and Lizzie, a former actress, have viewed themselves as adoptive sisters, closer than blood-related siblings, ever since their schooldays when they lived under the same roof. Now in their fifties, they meet up for the evening with their husbands at Anna’s French home, then the next morning separately make their way across the English Channel for their own very different reasons. Reasons that become clear in the course of a single day as each relives in vivid flashbacks their volatile friendship and the events that have both brought them together and pushed them far apart over the course of four decades.
Their habit of sharing everything – success and failure, secrets and problems, friends and even lovers – is under threat. Can a lifelong friendship that has so far survived everything from unresolved arguments and bitter quarrels to ill luck and infidelity make it through one more momentous day, or has it reached its natural end?
