'The instant feminist classic our generation has been waiting for' Ada Calhoun author of
Why We Can't Sleep What happens when growing up means growing apart? 1997. New York.
Earnest bookish Rose. Brash extrovert Charlotte. When they moved to New York in the
late nineties coffee cost less than a dollar and you could still smoke in bars. You could stay
up drinking all night sat in vinyl booths patched up with duct tape. Everyone has their own
New York and for Rose and Charlotte it was a place to feed their ambition a place to dance
and party and fall in love far from the suburbs they once called home. It was New York City
and it was everything they ever wanted. Their friendship was different too: intense and
life-changing. The kind that only happens once. The kind that couldn't last forever. In
Carlene Bauer's exuberant novel Rose and Charlotte look back and reckon with the loss of a
friendship that helped define them shaping their lives more than any love affair.
'Excellent... Full of texture and feeling.' Vivian Gornick
