Anna is the lynchpin of a group of lifelong best friends, but when she receives the next diagnosis in a series of struggles with cancer she decides on this occasion not to fight it. Each of the friends responds to the decision differently, as memories contend with the present. Readers of Alice Munro and Kate Atkinson will enjoy the dry humour and deep compassion underpinning this latest release from the }Loverboy{ author Before Everything is an ode to friendship for readers of Anne Tyler, Kate Atkinson and Ann Patchett, full of dry humour, quiet wisdom and huge empathy.
