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Title & Author: Galentine's Day by Rebecca Anderson
My rating: 4/5
Publisher: Avon Books
Publication date: 15th January 2026
Blurb:
Thirteen years. Three women. One annual sleepover.
13 February 2013. Alicia, Marnie and Hannah have their first Galentine’s Day sleepover. They’re eighteen, single, and the world is at their feet. Soon they’ll go their separate ways after college, but they promise that every year, they’ll have their sleepover.
13 February 2026. There are only two friends at the annual sleepover. Their friendships have been tested by life, by partying, breakdowns, and even by pregnancies. Are their best Galentine’s Days now behind them?
Galentine’s Day is a love letter to female friendship, that celebrates messiness, real relationships, and growing up together.
Review:
As teenagers, Marnie, Hannah and Alicia started the tradition of having a sleepover on February 13th, Galentine's Day, and this book follows these girl's nights over the course of thirteen years.
It takes them from teens, through university, into adulthood and navigating jobs, relationships, babies, marriages and everything in between. They all lead such busy separate lives but always make time for Galentine's.
This friendship group felt so real. All three of their journeys through life were different and I do think that anyone reading it will definitely resonate with one of the characters or aspects of a few.
I enjoyed the text exchanges between the girls, the cultural references and humour but it is definitely a story tinged with sadness too.
This is an accurate portrayal of female friendships across the years.
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