From the Bookshelf of What's the Name of That Book???…

First Friends

Marcia Willett

Why we're reading this: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...…more
[close] https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Find A Copy At

Libraries

Group Discussions About This Book

No group discussions for this book yet.

What Members Thought

Feb 12, 2009 Deb marked it as to-read

Publishers' habit of printing British books in the US with different titles really irks me. I know I read a couple of her books when I was in Britain, but its really hard to tell which ones when the titles are changed.

I do like this author, though. ...more

1 like · Like · see review

Apr 03, 2025 Cheryl rated it liked it · review of another edition

This was a book that was certainly not a romance, but instead a look at the rather tawdry lives of the women who married the officers of the British Navy. Infidelity, betrayals, abusive husbands, sad unrequited love - - - -yikes. I liked some of the characters, I truly did, and when I read the next book in this series, “A Friend of the Family" (which I was very fond of) it was nice to have an understanding and a follow-up to the original characters you meet in “First Friends”.

But - - -and this i ...more

Like · see review

Mar 22, 2009 CLM rated it liked it

Shelves: friendship, series, uk, fiction, 20th-century

Aug 18, 2012 Betsy marked it as to-read

Group Home Bookshelf Discussions

Photos Videos

Send invite Members Polls