Charlotte Wood

And in a way, I feel that my most intense friendships were formed in my 30s.

partly because I felt that I'd grown up now and I could choose the perfect friends for myself.

And I guess some of those friendships were friendships of couples, you know, or people's partners, whatever.

And then some of those last, the couples last or they don't or whatever.

But there's sort of groups of friends that I formed in my 30s that,

were incredibly intense.

It was like a love affair between five or six people.

You know, that sort of really giving yourself to the friendship that made you your best self.

And that's what these women, you know, they met around that time in different ways.

But that's sort of the time that almost formed, well, certainly formed them as a very tightly bonded group.

Well, it's a bit tricky because they all have their own quite idealized version of Sylvie.

Sylvie was the one that they all feel kind of held them all together actually, that they maybe didn't even realize until now she's gone.

She was the glue for this group.

And so what they're having to do is sort of rearrange themselves around this giant hole that Sylvie has left.

Now she's gone.

And they feel that, you know, they come together.

They've got this quite scratchy friendship.

Very scratchy.

Very scratchy.

They still love each other, though.