Your Friend Forever

Zena Barrie lives in Manchester and runs the Greater Manchester Fringe and the Camden Fringe. She ran the Kings Arms pub and Theatre in Salford for a while and also the Etcetera Theatre in Camden, as well as working in a wide variety of roles at the Edinburgh Fringe (from street performer to venue manager). In the 90s she did a degree in Drama and Theatre Arts specialising in playwriting. Up until recently she has been co-hosting the award winning spoken word night Verbose. She is also one half of performance art duo The Sweet Clowns.

Your Friend Forever is her first novel.

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Title: Your Friend Forever

Author: Zena Barrie

ISBN: 9781789651072

Binding:

Publisher: Unbound

Publication Date: 2021-04-29

Number of Pages: 320

Weight: 0.3801 kg

'Maud is the funniest teenager since Adrian Mole ... A beautiful book about hope and perseverance' Robin Ince

'Brilliantly transports readers back to the innocence of an Eighties adolescence ... Though Maud wouldn't realise it in a million years, it's a total joy to spend time with her' Alex Lowe

'The laughs just keep coming - peppered with gut-punches, it's an Adrian Mole for the twenty-first century. A beautiful novel' Lizzie Roper

'A hilarious and heartbreaking fan letter to the confused teenagers we once were, and the confused adults we become' Geoff Lloyd