Your Friend and Mine

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When Margot receives an email from her best friend, Tess, it comes as a shock. Tess has been dead for over twenty years.

At once she is catapulted back to 2000, meeting the cool, confident English backpacker visiting Sydney, where their intense friendship led to plans to travel back to Europe together. But then Margot fell in love with Johnny, they opened a restaurant together and had a baby. Margot never made it to London, and Tess tragically died from ovarian cancer. The guilt Margot felt about letting her friend down has never completely subsided.

Now Tess is providing Margot with the means to fly to London and have the trip they never got to do together. But there are stipulations to Tess's beyond-the-grave generosity - Margot must scatter her ashes and carry out one or two 'tasks' in the company of Leo, Tess's childhood friend.

Margot can't help but compare the dreams and aspirations of the girl who partied with Tess to the bored, exhausted woman she has become. How could Tess have predicted that Margot would need a second chance to get on that plane

With Jessica Dettmann's trademark wisdom, warmth and wit, Your Friend and Mine asks whether choosing the path not taken in the past can deliver the answers you need for the future.

Author Bio

Jessica Dettmann is author of four novels and one book for children. She lives in Sydney, Australia, with her family and her two cats. Before becoming a writer, she was a book editor. Even before that she once worked as the City of Sydney Christmas Angel, sitting on top of the Town Hall in a gown that reached the street, almost exclusively so she would have an interesting job to mention if she ever had the opportunity to write an author bio.