The Geography of Friendship is an Australian novel based around three women who have reconnected after many years of separation. Samantha, Lisa, and Nicole were the very best of friends, a friendship that seemed destined to be forever. These three girls have three different personalities and opposite ways of reacting to the challenges they face. These drastically different reactions and the consequences of these shape the direction of their journey.

Samantha, Lisa, and Nicole have come together to take on a trek they originally started twenty years earlier. The book flows between the current trek and their past trek constantly hinting at what happened on the first trek to create this distance between the once closest of friends.

This was a page-turner in that I was curious to see how the first trek played out, but at the same time, I just wanted it to be finished. I wanted to know the ending but wasn’t engrossed in the middle section and I never felt like I truly go to know any of the girls.

The ending was predictable and there were no surprises or twists, the story was more about the three friends and their friendship and relationship but it somehow just didn’t draw me in. The three girls Samantha, Lisa and Nicole were neither likable or hateable, it was hard to feel any emotion for them.

I really wanted to enjoy this book. I wanted to enjoy it because I have such a strong connection to friends hiking together and discovering and conversing together. It is very much me, it’s what I love to do and the style of writing I enjoy.

Did you connect with these three girls?