Cath and Si are best friends.

Total opposites, always together and both unlucky in love. Cath is scatty, messy and emotionally closed, and Si is impossibly tidy, bitchy and desperate for a man of his own. They live near each other in West Hampstead, close to their other best friends Josh and Lucy - who are married, with a devil-spawn child called Max and a terrifying Swedish nanny, Ingrid.

When Portia steps back into their lives - beautiful Portia, the undisputed queen of their group at university, who broke their collective hearts one night and from whom they have all gradually, silently grown apart - her reappearance sets off a chain of events that tests Cath and her friends to the limit. Does Portia have a hidden agenda, or is she just looking for happy endings all round? Whatever the answers, none of them could ever predict the outcome ...

I admit I do really enjoy Jane Green's books, they're a little predictable and angsty, but if you can put that aside for a while and just enjoy her easy style of writing they're very enjoyable. This centers around the usual bunch of 20-30 something's, their lives, loves and traumas. It is often funny and occasionally touching, though for me the whole bookshop thing was far too Ellen. The group dynamic as a whole was captured extremely well though, with all the angst, intrigue and petty dramas that are created when people are friends in groups. The most enjoyable part of this book was the relationship between Cath and Si. A real study into what makes a really good friendship so special. I liked it a lot, though probably not enough to re read any time in the near future.