The Friendship Wheel

The revolutionary guide to friendship you didn't know you needed

Friendships are the ties that bind us to the world. They’re an endlessly varied source of joy, emotional support, and shared experience, underpinning family, relationships and work. In our increasingly alienated, stratified world, they’ve never been more important, or more at risk. But they are the secret key to a happy life.

We have undervalued friendship because we haven’t had a way to talk about it – until now. The Friendship Wheel is simple: six colours for the six types of friendship. Your Yellow is the barista you chat to, and your Red is the friendship group you’ve known for decades. Blue is the soulmate you confide in, and Orange is the glow of meeting someone new. Once you've done the wheel yourself, you'll understand how the colours work in your life and how to make the most of all your friendships.

Warm, inspiring and judgement-free, Rachel Benoit brings her own experience and real-life stories to show us why all friendships across the wheel matter, how to make them better and enjoy them more. If it feels like a friendship isn’t working, it might just be a misalignment of colour, and they’d flourish elsewhere on the wheel - and Benoit will show you how.

At once extraordinarily simple and completely revelatory, the wheel will change and improve your friendships forever.