Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict

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This offer only applies to copies of the book pre-purchased with a ticket and is not available at the event itself. She’s helped by five of her closest confidants, including journalist Sathnam Sanghera and broadcaster Clemency Burton-Hill, with first-person takes from the likes of a neurodivergent Iraqi woman and the sixtysomething chairman of a Norfolk “men’s shed”. There are explorations of modern day issues like social media friendships and ghosting, as well as deeper elements like friendships ending due to a bereavement. I’ve thought lots while reading this about my friends, and about how I act as a friend, and came out of this reading experience feeling I better understood what friendship means in my life, how to be a better friend, and with more conscious gratitude for my friends than I have had in some time.

Elizabeth Day is not your friend - New Statesman

I am a firm believer that books find you when you need them, and this is an incredible example of that.Amidst birthday joy, thesis submission anxiety, and bittersweet farewells, this book was placed in my hands by my beloved friends.

Elizabeth Day in Conversation with Phoebe Waller-Bridge - FANE

Yet you persist with the friendship, driven by the belief that letting it fade would be pretty much a crime against humanity. This book absolutely hit the spot for me, and it’s been a long time since a book has got me this good.This is something I really wanted Day to address more broadly because she has a whole chapter for her "Best" friend and in that very chapter reveals this study where people can have 6.

Friendaholic by Elizabeth Day: Weaning herself off a need for

It gave me the context and lanuage to put into place the rapidly changing landscape of friendships during my 20s, and validated the way I had been feeling about situations past. She gets beneath your skin (in a good way) and you kept help reading each chapter and saying aloud, yes Elizabeth I know as if you’re both sitting having a chat. This book embodies a chapter of life we shared, some that proceeded it and the unwritten ones yet to come. The philanthropist is Beatrix Potter but the others – Octavia Hill, Pauline Dower and Sylvia Sayer – are far less well known.So if you are still, as Day was at one point, determined to maintain every friendly connection you’ve ever had, it is an index not of your niceness but of your desperate need to hang on to several skips’ worth of emotional lumber. She briefly pokes fun at the bromance, and goes on to say that the decrease in military participation has robbed men of the ability to have close physical relationships with other men. In Friendaholic, I feel she gets back to her roots from 'How to Fail' and really taps into the human condition of friendship, via her experiential lens.