"I honestly just have the most respect for something beautiful that happens when two friends, two women, become close," she says. "We use female friendship and the connection we have there as a way to negotiate the often inconvenient and frightening experience of being female." The book is published by Simon & Schuster at £16.99.
On this episode, we welcome journalist Kate Leaver to talk about her new book The Friendship Cure in which she explores the crippling, damaging, life-threatening impact of loneliness and the severe mental health impacts of living a life disconnected from a support network of close contacts. But...there is a cure...learning how to connect with others and curate better friendships.
In the interview we talk about loneliness, how to make friends, the difference between male and female friendship, platonic friendships, friends with benefits and lots, lots, more.
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