A conversation on love and childhood friendships with Kamila Shamsie

What do childhood friendships bring to our lives? And what are the challenges of trying to sustain them?

Before I became close to my childhood friend Caroline, she was – to use the melodramatic language of our teen years – the enemy. The boy I liked cheated on me with her, which, at the time, felt like an apocalypse. Until he went on to cheat on her with someone else – who also later became a beloved friend – and we were thrown together, united by heartach…