The debut novel by the editor of British Vogue, Alexandra Shulman, Can We
Still Be Friends is an emotionally absorbing story (with a nod to Sex and the City)
about three twenty-something female friends who graduate together in the 1980s
Summer, 1983. Best friends, Sal, Annie and Kendra are fresh-faced and fresh out of
university. Three very different girls about to walk three very different but equally
tangled paths . . .
Sal's the aspiring journalist whose personal demons threaten to destroy everything she
achieves. Annie's the domestic beauty, convinced that marriage will give her everything
she wants. And Kendra, the daughter of chic, liberal parents, is searching for her an
identity all of her own.
As they plunge headlong into the years of pixie boots and shoulder pads, Duran Duran
and Margaret Thatcher, they find that for all their plans and hopes and dreams, nothing in
life is certain - and that includes friendship.
'Warm and entertaining . . . captures the excitement of being young and glamorous at a
time when the sky really did seem to be the limit' The Times
'Wonderfully evokes that ping-pong between trivial and tremendous so characteristic of
the Eighties . . . great on atmosphere . . . An engaging debut, alive with human sympathy'
Wendy Holden, Daily Mail
Alexandra Shulman has edited British Vogue since 1992. She is a contributor to
The Times, Daily Mail, Guardian and Daily Telegraph and lives in London.
This is her first novel.