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The Girls of Mischief Bay by Susan Mallery

Finding our one true, romantic love is important, but it’s not the only cornerstone relationship of a happy life. We have just as deep a need for friends. The craving for connection is fundamental and universal, and so we search for our tribe.

The infinite variations of friendship fascinate me. How does someone transition from stranger to acquaintance to friend? It’s magic![giveaway giveaway_id=1928 side=”right”]

There’s something in each of us that responds to something in the people who become our closest friends. Often, it’s almost instantaneous. We meet, we click. Other times, it takes a little longer for that deep bond to form. And sometimes, we don’t remember not being friends with this special person because she’s been in our lives since we were young.

I remember meeting each of my closest friends almost as clearly as I remember meeting my husband. Right from the first, I felt energized around these women. We got each other. We laughed at the same things. The same stories tugged our hearts. We might not agree about everything, but we view the world through a similar lens. We share a belief that people are basically good and that the world is a just place.The Girls of Michief Bay

I write relationship books. With my Fool’s Gold romances, the main relationship is the romance, while female friendship is a strong supporting theme. With my women’s fiction books, the focus is reversed. In Three Sisters, now in mass market paperback, the women are brought together by geography. They’re next door neighbors, virtual strangers living in three Queen Anne homes on the highest hill on Blackberry Island. When the book starts, they have no idea they’re going to become best friends, that they’ll help each other through some of the happiest and most heartbreaking times of their lives.

In March, I’ll release The Girls of Mischief Bay, featuring three women whose friendship sparked with the shared experience of stretching their bodies in unnatural ways—they were the only three who didn’t flake out of Pilates class every Friday. It’s hard not to bond with women who see you looking like an idiot, but who like you anyway.

What do you remember about meeting your closest friends? Was it love at first sight, or did it take a while for the friendship to develop?

 

 

The Girls of Mischief Bay by Susan Mallery
Genre: Fiction
Author: Susan Mallery
Publisher: MIRA
ISBN: 9780778317750
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  • I loved your story! We wrote a blog on where friendship starts , and how to take initiative if you are shy and make new friends on our blog.

    Some inside….

    You may be asking yourself questions like, “What if they don’t like me?” or “What if they make fun of me?” The truth is, we are all afraid of rejection. You are not alone in this. I remember transferring to a new school and not knowing where to begin. I had the same self-doubt. Then, one day, I pulled myself up and brushed all those doubts aside.

    https://myfriendshop.com/where-friendship-starts

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