When We Were Friends

A Short Story

By: Jane Green

Narrated by: Lucy Rayner

From New York Times bestselling author Jane Green comes a riveting story about a friendship that turns ugly when a woman realizes her new best friend is not what she seems.

By all accounts, Lucy’s handled her divorce well. She’s finally in the cozy, plant-filled house of her dreams. And although she doesn’t fit in with the other divorcées—all busy looking for their next ex—she’s excited to get down to earth and savor the small joys of life.

When Lucy meets Elle, a hip younger woman who shares her same passions, their connection is instant. Taking a chance on kismet, Lucy forges a friendship that fills her days with meaning. She and Elle are inseparable, from sunup to sundown, enjoying the immediate ease and familiarity of each other’s company.

But as Lucy introduces Elle to her circle, a new side of her friend appears. And try as she might, Lucy can’t ignore her misgivings. Who is Elle really? And can their all-consuming friendship survive closer inspection?

©2024 by Jane Green. (P)2024 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

This was a lovely story full of life lessons

I really liked this short story. Life lessons… thank you. I’ll definitely share this with friends.

Life Experiences re friendship

A very quick read with a lot of meat and potatoes inside. A really good look at oneself and the necessity of friends, but are they really friends??

Friends can hurt too

A friend's trust is hard to be forgiven. It makes sense to be stronger in the future friends.

The openness to be loved

I really enjoyed this short story. I love how both women had an instant connection a true friendship, a true vulnerability they both had but a sad twist to reality brought both women to a place where you can forgive, but never forget.

A Stroll to Self-Knowledge

Lucy is befriended by someone who seems on first meeting too good to be true but... Ahh there's the rub there are so many coincidences that it all seems am impossibility for their many commonalities. It's amazing that they have so much in common. It feels beautiful. Scary to my mind as the preample to a narcisstic relationship, but Lucy is a divorcee with friends in similar situation saying the their former husbands are narsicissts. Lucy believes that to be a catchall phrase rather than reality, but is it?
The writing is filled with foreshadowing dispensed like breadcrumbs which kept me glued to the pathed road to end. Told from the heroine's point of view as seen through a third person lens, it's a charming standoffishness account with lots of feels.