Truman Capote once said that friendship and love are exactly the same thing. His theory is championed in Stephen Greco’s Such Good Friends, a fictionalised retelling of the intense, platonic relationship between the Breakfast At Tiffany’s author and famed socialite, Lee Radziwill.

The glamorous but somewhat unlikely pair bond over a shared sense of unworthiness – Capote because of his poor Southern upbringing, Radziwill due to being constantly overshadowed by her older sister, Jackie Kennedy. Sneaking the reader onto the guestlist of some of New York’s most exclusive parties, the novel offers a whistle-stop tour of 1960s America as experienced by the very rich and somewhat famous. Its pages are graced by a who’s who of the 20th century, with memorable cameos by everyone from Wallis Simpson and Gore Vidal to Madonna and Donald Trump.

As time marches on, however, the dizzy heights of the best friends’ heyday are followed by the gradual destruction of their once unbreakable bond, accelerated by Lee’s faltering love life and Truman’s tragic descent into alcoholism. A rollicking story marred slightly by a dull narrator, it works best when digging deep into the fascinating, troubled psyches of its two main characters.