Friends Like These: My Worldwide Quest to Find My Best Childhood Friends, Knock on Their Doors, and Ask Them to Come Out and Play

Danny Wallace has friends. He has a wife and goes to brunch, and his new house has a couch with throw pillows. But as he nears 30, he can't help wondering about his best childhood friends, whose names he finds in a long-forgotten address book. Where are they now -- and where, really, is he?

Acting on an impulse we've all had at least once, he travels from London to Berlin, Tokyo, Australia, and California, risking rejection and ridicule to show up on his old pals' doorsteps. Memories of his 1980s childhood -- from Michael Jackson to Ghostbusters -- overwhelm him as he meets former buddies who have blossomed into rappers and ninjas, time-traveling pioneers, mediocre restaurant managers, and even Fijian royalty.

Danny's attempt to re-befriend them all gives remarkable new resonance to the age-old mantra, "friends forever "

Author: Danny Wallace
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: 09/01/2009
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 8.48h x 5.78w x 1.36d
ISBN: 9780316042772

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2009
Booklist 09/15/2009 pg. 26
Library Journal 09/15/2009 pg. 64
Publisher's Weekly Annex 09/21/2009

About the Author
Danny Wallace is the author of The Yes Man, which was made into a film starring Jim Carrey. He has hosted various television shows and starred in BBC documentaries. Currently, he has a weekly radio show on XFM in London, and three of his books have been bestsellers in the UK.