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Friends and Lovers
1947
First Published
3.63
Average Rating
367
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David Bosworth is a penniless undergraduate at Oxford with a head full of dreams. Penelope Lorrimer is the pretty daughter of a wealthy Edinburgh family; they have plans for her, but their ambitions do not match hers. When they fall in love the odds are against them, but the opposition they encounter draws them closer than any love more easily won - and the bond between them is stronger,more durable than the one between mere friends and lovers...

Avg Rating
3.63
Number of Ratings
336
5 STARS
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4 STARS
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3 STARS
32%
2 STARS
11%
1 STARS
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Author

Helen MacInnes
Helen MacInnes
Author · 24 books
Helen MacInnes was a Scottish-American author of espionage novels. She graduated from the University of Glasgow in Scotland in 1928 with a degree in French and German. A librarian, she married Professor Gilbert Highet in 1932 and moved with her husband to New York in 1937 so he could teach classics at Columbia University. She wrote her first novel, Above Suspicion, in 1939. She wrote many bestselling suspense novels and became an American citizen in 1951.
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