Dream Girls

Helena and Ruthie have been best friends since high school, bonded by big romantic stories, pop culture obsessions and a shared sense that adulthood would be intense, artistic and full of love. Now in their late twenties, the dream is looking shakier. Helena is stuck in the orbit of an ex while working at an elite boys’ school where the culture is as unsettling as it is polished. Ruthie, meanwhile, is funnelling her marital unhappiness into elaborate cakes and solitary Friday-night Woolworths trips. When a glamorous forest wedding offers a chance to reconnect, they find that returning to each other means reckoning with old fantasies, newer disappointments and the complicated ways friendship can change. Inspired by Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Dream Girls by Hannah Goldstein is a sharp, funny novel about love, longing and intense female friendship in absurd times. Useful additional information Author: Hannah Goldstein