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City of friends / (Record no. 6534)

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000 -LEADER
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003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER
control field	OSt
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
control field	20251018123250.0
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number	978-1-5098-2346-8
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Transcribing agency	PCCR Library
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number	Fic T84 2017
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name	Trollope, Joanna
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title	City of friends /
Statement of responsibility, etc.	Joanna Trollope
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc.	London :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc.	Pan Books,
Date of publication, distribution, etc.	2017
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent	343 pages;
Dimensions	20 cm.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc.	The novel follows four women who have been friends since their university days studying economics. They’re in their forties, each successful in demanding careers, and each dealing with different pressures in life. The story begins when Stacey Grant, a senior partner at a top private equity firm in London, asks for flexible working arrangements so she can care for her mother, who has dementia. Instead of accommodating her, her employer immediately fires her.<br/>Stacey suddenly loses not just her job, but much of her sense of identity and stability. She has no children, but has been tightly bound up in her work. Her husband’s career continues to move forward, adding to Stacey’s feelings of being left behind.<br/>When Stacey becomes unemployed, the group tries to rally around her. Gaby is in a position to offer her a job, but there are complications: the job Gaby could offer was instead given (or promised) to a woman married to Melissa’s ex. Furthermore, the headhunting role that led to that decision involved Beth’s partner – and Beth and Gaby had not been open about these connections. Secrets, miscommunication, unspoken resentments start to fray the threads of their friendships.<br/>As the plot unfolds, the novels digs into how the friendships among the four women are tested. The betrayals are not huge melodramatic ones but more of the kind that grow quietly out of omission, assumption, embarrassment, and fear. The question becomes: how much can they lean on each other, and how much is each expected to carry alone?<br/><br/>By the end, each woman is forced to reconsider what "success" means to her, whether in career, in family or in friendship. The relationships shift. Some wounds heal; some truths are acknowledged. And Stacey, especially, must choose whether to try to return to the world she knew or to forge a new path.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element	Female Friendship
General subdivision	Fiction
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element	Modern Womanhood
General subdivision	Fiction
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Source of classification or shelving scheme	Dewey Decimal Classification
Koha item type	Books
Suppress in OPAC	No

Holdings
Withdrawn status	Lost status	Source of classification or shelving scheme	Damaged status	Not for loan	Collection	Home library	Current library	Shelving location	Date acquired	Source of acquisition	Total checkouts	Full call number	Barcode	Date last seen	Copy number	Price effective from	Koha item type
		Dewey Decimal Classification			Fiction	PCCR College Library	PCCR College Library	Fiction	10/18/2025	Donation (Ms. Annabel T. Gatmin, Librarian)		Fic T84 2017	08901	10/18/2025	1	10/18/2025	Books