Sundowners - Lesley Lokko

Take four friends...Rianne: beautiful, wealthy and thoroughly spoilt, she has the world at her feet but is about to risk everything. Gabrielle: intelligent, loyal and always worrying about everyone else, now it's time for her to start looking after No.1. Nathalie: petite, pretty and with a shrewd eye for business, she uses her work to help her forget the one man she can't have. Charmaine: flirty and outrageous, she knows all about the good life. She just needs someone to pay for it...Then a chance encounter changes everything - and for Rianne and her friends, nothing is going to be the same again..

Like her previous books this is a good 'chick lit' to read. Its less of a snapshot of one moment in a characters life, and more of a timeline of four friends and how their paths intertwine from beginning to end.  Its gives a snapshot of each of the girls and how they grow and adapt to life.  I really loved hearing about the characters and how theirs lives had changed and how she sent them all down different paths (but still intertwining) it was like reading four different books in one.

The only downside to this was it was a wee bit to long for my liking and towards the end although I was enjoying it, it did take forever to get through.  Sometimes as well it felt a bit to coincidental and contrived that the characters kept bumping into the same people from school and their first loves became constants in their life and little things like that but after all this is what fiction is good for.

Overall i would say this is a really good chick lit (some of her later stuff is a little bit better but this one is still worth the read).