Dimensions
153 x 234 x 22mm
As students, Marianne Dillon and Clare McMahon become instant and unlikely friends. Marianne is spoilt, brazen and irreverent; Clare hardworking, modest and shy. But somehow they bring out the best in each other.
Marianne's generosity and Clare's steadfastness are the glue of a friendship that sees them through twenty-five years of love and loss, successes and disappointments, marriage and motherhood. The secret of their friendship, they believe, is that they are complete opposites.
But when a life-altering crisis hits their relationship - a crisis that involves their husbands, children and indeed the lives they have created - the crack that was there all along tears them apart.
Each must face catastrophe without the support of the best friend she would always turn to. Is it possible that a relationship that was so central to their lives was built on sand? And can they rescue something from the wreckage?
Praise for The Better Half
'Sarah Harte has been rightly billed as 'Ireland's latest sensation in women's fiction'.' Sunday Independent
'Intelligent . . . .encapsulates some universal truths about families, friendship and what we value.' Sunday Times
'Deceptively sharp and witty . . . and I know I won't be the only reader to finish it with a lump in my throat.' Irish Times
'Brilliant . . . great insight and poignancy.' The Examiner
'Impressive, gripping and well-observed.' Sunday Independent
'Compelling and darkly humorous.' Irish Daily Mail
'A real gem and brilliantly gripping.' Closer
