My Best Friend's Girl: A Novel

by Dorothy Koomson

Book Overview

Kamryn Matika has no responsibilities - one birthday card will change that forever... Best friends Kamryn Matika and Adele Brannon though nothing could come between them - until Adele did the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 055359141X
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Bantam Discovery
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.9" x 1.0" x 4.2"

Customer Reviews

A Great Read!

I really loved this book! It was so good! I was actually quite shocked by just how engrossing the story really was - not to mention how surprisingly sad it was for such a cheerful cover. Really, it was just so riveting. While reading it, I didn't know how I wanted it to end... nor was I able to really predict the ending, either. I just loved reading this and I am anxious to read her other books!

Great book

I bought this book as a filler and I couldn't be happier that I did. This book really hits some raw emotions of you have been burned by a friend or a loved one. I have just a few more chapters to go and I can't wait to finish it!

My Best Friends Girl

This was probably one of the best books I have ever read! I kept saying one more chapter and couldnt put it down! I ended up finishing it in under 1 day!!! A GREAT read

NOT your average chick-lit

"My Best Friend's Girl" was a LOT better than I'd expected it to be. I don't know why I wasn't expecting too much of it - I mean, after all I bought it, surely I must have felt it was worth reading? I think my problem is that I'd gotten to the point where I felt good chick-lit is hard to find, and that this one would be as shallow as the rest. Fortunately I was mistaken. I laughed and cried in turn practically from page one. It's an extremely moving story and one that has you guessing right to the very end. I ended up loving the characters and simply couldn't put the book down. I highly recommend it.

You can find forgiveness in the strangest of places

What would you do for the friend who slept with your boyfriend Nate and then had his child, not only that but for three years keep you in the dark about it, letting you love that child, become its Godmother and then have the bombshell of its parentage dropped on you from a great height? Best friends since University Kamryn Matika and Adele Brannon seemed to have it all; friendship through thick and thin and they both honestly nothing could ever break up their solid friendship. However when Kamryn finally discovers the truth about Adele and Nate's betrayal she vows never to see either her boyfriend or Adele ever again and she cuts them all out of her life, including her Goddaughter who she still secretly adores. Two years later out of the blue Kamryn gets a letter on her birthday from Adele asking her to visit her in hospital where she is dying. Kamryn reluctantly goes to see her and to her complete and utter shock Adele begs her to adopt her daughter, Tegan. With a job she loves, a hectic social life that does not include kids, kittens and motherhood, the last thing Kamryn needs is a five year child old tied to her designer apron strings. Especially not a child who reminds her so much of a time she would rather forget. But upon finding a traumatised Tegan living in awful conditions with Adele's vile stepmother and uncaring father Kamryn takes the bull by the horns and takes the child on. And so starts an eye-opening journey for both Kamryn and Tegan that will lead to a kind of redemption, motherly love and an understanding of the fragility of the human condition. I really liked this book, mainly because it was quite unusual in its character set up, for Kamryn was black and Adele and Tegan white, this is a charming book about families and how it doesn't take the colour of ones skin to say who is a mother and who is her daughter....