Running in Heels

Natalie Miller is twenty-seven and works as a senior press officer for the London Ballet. Her closest friend of sixteen years, Babs, is getting married, and Nat panics. The two became blood sisters at eleven, and Nat cannot picture what happens to a friendship once one of them vows lifelong love to someone else.

Nat is also dating Saul Bowcock, but as the wedding confetti falls, her good-girl surface starts to crack. She slides into an unsuitable affair that pulls her further out of control, and she is on the rebound while she does it.

The trouble is that Nat avoids the truth about nearly everything. She dodges what she knows about Babs's relationship, her boyfriend's ambition, her parents' divorce and a secret her golden-boy brother keeps in Australia. Even her mother's lasagna and her flatmate Andy's fuzzy slippers irritate her far more than they should.

This is a comic novel with a witty, frank narrator who tells her own story in the first person. It is a funny, fast read about self-deception, and about the hard things only a best friend will say aloud. What Nat has to face in the end is herself.