The Book Borrower: A Novel by Alice Mattison - Young mothers with babies, Toby and Deborah become instant friends. It is a relationship that will endure for decades, through the vagaries of marriage, career, and child-rearing, through heated discussions of politics, ethics, and life, until an insurmountable argument takes the two women down divergent paths. (Bilbary Town Library: Good for Readers, Good for Libraries)