'Female friendship is not a perfect love story any more than a romantic relationship is'

From Sex and the City to The White Lotus, the complexities of women’s companionship has been a source of fascination for many. Vicki Notaro tells Elle Gordon how the idea of ‘the one’ in female friendships inspired her latest novel

Vicki Notaro: 'Someone who was your ‘one’ in friendship years ago, might not be your ‘one’ now'

When Vicki Notaro was a child, she used to watch Beaches starring Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey, every Saturday with her cousin Trevor at her Granny’s house.

“We had a VHS copy of it, and we would cry at the end every single time,” she says, laughing. It was this ritual that sparked an idea in Notaro.