Your Friend and Mine, by Jessica Dettmann

Twenty years after the death of her best friend Tess, Margot receives a legacy and a quest. Leaving her busy Sydney restaurant and complacent husband for a short visit to London to chase a lost dream, Margot finds a new friendship and the space to question her life and dare to think of a different future. It’s a bit of a leap to believe that the young women could have forged such a deep and enduring friendship in six months of knowing each other, but after suspending that disbelief much else rings true. It is refreshing that the story does not pursue the obvious romance, but the twist at the end again stretches credulity and undermines the integrity of the main narrative, which deals movingly with grief and paths not taken.