Among Friends 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒

By Hal Ebbott

Among Friends is a deeply unsettling yet profoundly moving exploration of moral choice, betrayal, and the quiet devastations that ripple through families and friendships.

With an unwavering commitment to authenticity, Ebbott crafts a novel that does not merely tell a story but dissects the emotional and psychological anatomy of its characters, rendering them with a precision that feels more like discovery than invention.

The book follows a group of families as they navigate the aftermath of a grotesque betrayal, one that forces each individual to confront their complicity, loyalties, and capacity for self-deception.

It is a narrative that lingers on the minutiae of human behaviour, obsessing over the gestures, words, and silences that define our relationships. Every sentence is weighed for its truthfulness, and every moment is examined with an almost forensic intensity.

This is a book that compels and unsettles in equal measure, lingering in the mind long after the final page. This is fiction at its most unflinching urgent, uncomfortable, and devastatingly true.

Ebbott does not offer easy resolutions or sentimental reprieve.

Instead, he gives us a mirror, asking us to reckon with what we see. Among Friends is an essential read for those drawn to literature that demands attention, reflection, and, ultimately, a confrontation with the self.

Thank you to Laila and the team at Pan Macmillan for sending me an ARC of the book! The book is out today and available to purchase.

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