The True Face (Paperback)

Paperback. A friendship is a privilege. Everyone wants one; not everyone is given one. It is easy to come by and hard to keep - and when you force it, when you hold it together past the point it wants to hold, it begins to crack.Victoria knew Magda before she was anyone: a hungry girl on a kitchen floor, eating bread with salt and garlic. She handed her a world - parties, friends, the feeling of being seen - and loved her for the better part of thirty years, through every small cruelty and every silence where a friend should have been.The True Face is the story of that friendship and its long unravelling - of a woman learning, far too slowly, to tell the face a person performs from the one underneath. It is not a story about revenge, but about the harder thing: finally seeing clearly, and the freedom that comes with it. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.