To My Best Friends - Sam Baker

If you are looking for the perfect holiday read, you've come to the right place. This book asks, and answers a question that most women will understand "Do you ever know your best friends as well as you think?". The story involves the friends of the deceased Nicci who has bequeathed her most precious possessions, namely her garden, her children and her husband to her best friends, Mona, Lizzie and Jo. The friends are a tight-knit group who have known each other for years, their friendship being forged in their college years and seeing them through the arrival of husbands, lovers and, for some ... more

Have you ever had that thought ... what would happen to my things if I died? Or thought maybe it's time you wrote a will. I reckon most of us have, I know I have although I always think I have nothing important to give. But what if I did? Nicci has been ill for a while, sadly she is losing the fight against the cancer invading her body but before she goes she needs to make sure her things are in order. Who is going to help her husband David take care of their beautiful twin daughters? Who is going to take care of David when she's gone? And who will look after the garden she had always been so ... more

Author Born in Hampshire, Sam Baker studied politics at Birmingham University. Sam has edited some of the UK's biggest magazines. After successfully re-launching teenage magazine Just Seventeen as J-17, she edited Minx then spent five years as editor of Company. She was editor of Cosmopolitan UK and is now editor-in-chief of Red. She has a grown-up stepson and lives between Winchester, Hampshire and central London with her husband, the award-winning novelist Jon Courtenay Grimwood. Story Nicci Morrison was always the first of her friends to do everything…but she wasn't meant to be the first to ... more

I read a few reviews of this book and it sounded my kind of read so it was added to my book list and when I saw it on the shelves, I wasted no time picking it up. I have just finished reading it and as it is an author that is new for me I thought best to share my review of it. The author: Sam Baker is an English author who has been the editor of some really well known magazines such as Cosmopolitan, Just Seventeen and Company and is currently still working as an editor in chief of Red magazine. She is married to novelist Jon Courtenay Grimwood so I guess writing is a big thing in their ... more

When Nicci Morrison becomes very ill and knows she is going to die, she decides to write letters to each of her best friends with instructions for them, from everything to their love lives to how to help raise her young twin girls who will be left without a mother. However, Nicci doesn't count on her friends finding it difficult to cope with her requests. Mona is left Nicci's husband David, which puts the two of them in a very awkward position, and one neither particularly wants to go through with. Jo is left Nicci's twin girls to look after, as Nicci felt that she'd be a great mother ... more