"Young female friendship is romance without the physical"īut it’s not always rosy. And then there are hours spent giggling late in bed because you’ve found more to discuss. You tidy each other’s rooms in the hope that your mum relents and lets you or them stay the night. You’d do anything for a sleepover over going home after dinner. There are dance routines made up to pop songs that if you thought hard now you’d still remember the moves. Days at school with our earliest pals are followed up by hours on the phone because you still have so much to talk about. But the relationships and love we have for our female friends, especially during childhood, are equally as emotional and charged. We place a lot of emphasis on romantic love because of the narratives that we’re fed from such a young age. It is the latter of which Elena Ferrante captures so masterfully in the Neapolitan novels through the relationship between its star characters, Lila and Lenu – the depth and complexity of our most potent and formative female friendships. It is the same feeling that first love evokes, and also of our some of our earliest female friendships, both of which carry the same levels of intensity. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play
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