All My Friends Are Characters

One day, after years interviewing strangers in my job as a journalist, I started wondering what it would be like to interview my friends. My husband, who is responsible for stopping me when I get a crazy idea, encouraged me to pursue it. I rounded up twelve of my bravest friends. I gave them baked goods, hot drinks and questions; they gave me their stories.

The result, a short work called “All My Friends Are Characters”, weaves together the stories of twelve “ordinary” thirty-somethings.

The friends it features include a social worker with first­-hand experience of abusive relationships, a French woman suffering from ennui, and a father of four who recently stumbled into his dream job. There’s also a woman who suffered pre­-natal depression, a man who chased the woman he loved across the world, and a nurse with chronic fatigue syndrome. The book is a testimony to the fact that each one of us has stories worth telling.