The Birthday Club, Confessions And Promises
Dee and Jane are chatting in Dee’s kitchen, fresh back from an afternoon session in the gym. “You’re a bloody tease,” Jane said. “You know you are, and you know he follows you about.” “It’s not doing him any harm, and it makes me feel good; you’re just as bad. You know Dunc has your picture as his home page on his phone,” Dee replied. The two women have been friends since they met in prenatal classes. Their sons were born within a day of each other and have been best friends ever since. Through cruel twists of fate, both women are now single mums. Dee was widowed before her son ‘Dunc’ was five. Jane separated and then divorced just three years ago. They had both’married well’. Dee’s husband had private and corporate life insurance, …