Joy Fielding: The Best of Friends (USA 1972)

From the Publisher:
Meet:
CAROLYN - short, dark, melancholic, plagued with doubts and fears in her rela. tionships with men, withdrawn from reality, undergoing analysis.

CATHY - tall, blondly beautiful, cool, self-assured, a successful model, popular with men and adept at exploiting them to fulfill her needs.

They are the best of friends. Two very different young women who on the surface appear to share only a recent personal crisis.

Yet beneath the surface of their friendship, as each invites and draws strength from the other's weaknesses, there are forces at work which must lead them into a shocking and brutal confrontation with themselves and each other.

A gripping, contemporary novel which explores with sensitivity and compassion the conflicting emotions in a unique female relationship, THE BEST OF FRIENDs offers a heartbreaking and unforgettable reading experience.

While attending the University of Toronto, JOY FIELDING was active both as an actress and a playwright. After her graduation in 1966 Miss Fielding followed an acting career that led her to a season at the Stratford Festival, into innumerable CBC and CTV dramas, and finally to Hollywood. "Hollywood was not exactly thrilled," she says.

It was while trying to break into the movies that she developed her interest in writing. On her return to Toronto Miss Fielding wrote THE BEST OF FRIENDS, her first novel.

Joy Fielding lives in Toronto with her parents and has her next novel in the final draft stage.

Joy Fielding: The Best of Friends. New York: Putnam's, 1972, ISBN: 039910979X, 214 p., $?.??.