Delightful books on platonic friendships you must read

When you are living far away from your family in an unfamiliar place, your friends are the only lifelines you have. They are your ‘family’ away from your family, and help you deal with whatever you are going through in your life. Also, your friends are the ones you go to in case of problems that you can’t share with your family. In addition, numerous books have been written to date that shed light on memorable friendships - both platonic and non-platonic. Below mentioned are 7 delightful books on platonic friendships you must read.

One of the greatest classics of all time, the novel presents to its readers a complicated friendship between Pip and Joe. At the start of the novel, the relationship between Pip and Joe is close, supportive, and mutually dependent. However, as Pip gets to know societal hierarchy, he starts to disown his Christian values, learned from Joe, and embraces class, status, and wealth.

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In the memorable novel, the friendship between Nel and Sula is the central theme. Their friendship starts as a way to "let them use each other to grow on." Each girl is trying to become her own person, and each girl has limitations put on her in her household. Later in the novel, when Sula returns as a young woman after 10 years away, Nel accepts her immediately.

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The book's protagonist is the naïve drifter Alice, who squats with a group of radicals in London and is drawn into their terrorist activities. Meanwhile, Alice loves Jasper, even though she knows he prefers men. Though his rejection of her proposal is clear, Alice is somewhat relieved that nothing can happen between the two.

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This novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity, and heroism of India. It centers on Dina, a widow who has a renter named Maneck, and two tailors - Ishvar and Omprakash. All of them form a makeshift family together, but the declaration of Emergency by the State, upheavals their life completely.

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It is a short story about Mr. Duffy, a middle-aged, antisocial bachelor who becomes friends with a married woman. Abhorrent of any mental weakness, Duffy refuses to acknowledge his loneliness until he discovers that his friend died.

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The novel centers on Camilla, who while spending summer holidays with her friends, realizes that excludes her from the gossipy intimacies of previous summers. Anxious that she will remain encased in her solitary life as a school secretary, Camilla steps into an unlikely liaison with Richard Elton, a handsome and dangerous - liar.

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The book is set in the summer of 1986 in a small Scottish town where James and Tully ignite a brilliant friendship based on music, films, and the rebel spirit. "With school over and the locked world of their fathers before them, they rush towards the climax of their youth," the book's blurb says.

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