My Best Friend's Girl (novel)
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My Best Friend's Girl is a 2006 novel by Dorothy Koomson. The book's sales were boosted when it was chosen for the Richard and Judy's Summer Reads shortlist.[1] The novel is about a woman called Kamryn Matika, who finds out that her best friend, Adele, is dying of cancer. Adele wants Kamryn to adopt her five-year-old daughter, Tegan after she dies. The book deals with themes of death and grief, innocence and forgiveness. The title is drawn from the 1976 song "My Best Friend's Girl" by The Cars.
Plot
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Kamryn Matika is a 32-year-old national
A few weeks later, Kamryn and Tegan move back up to Leeds. At first, there were issues such as they don't know what shampoo to get for Tegan. Kamryn is under suspicion as she is a black woman with a white child.
Kamryn once forgets Tegan and leaves her at a play group while she is having dinner with her new boss, Luke. The next day, Luke comes round and Tegan asks him to come to the zoo with her and Kamryn. Kamryn and Luke become closer and then they become lovers.
Just as they are settling in, Kamryn's former partner (and Tegan's father), Nate, comes back on the scene. Kamryn tells Nate about his daughter, to which he is now becoming used to even helping with her sixth birthday party, which goes badly wrong when Tegan has an
About eighteen months later, Luke meets up with Kamryn and Tegan in a café and seems to have forgiven Kamryn. Tegan is now Kamryn's adopted daughter and says that they are going to get a cat.
Characters
Kamryn Matika - aged 32, she lives in
Adele Brannon (formally Lucinda-Jayne Adele Hamilton-Mackenzie) - Kamryn's best friend of fourteen years and Tegan's real mother. Adele formally dressed like a
Luke Wiseman - Kamryn's boss and later boyfriend. Luke was a product of a teenage pregnancy and was taken into care at a young age. He sees Tegan as his own daughter and is rather protective of her, especially when Nate (who is Tegan's biological father) arrives.
Nate Turner - Tegan's father from a
Tegan Brannon - Adele's five- (later seven-) year-old daughter from her affair with Nate. Despite the reminder of her biological mother's death, she still loves Kamryn all the same.
References
- ^ Sharp, Rob (6 August 2006). "How Richard and Judy rewrote the bestseller lists". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 May 2021.