Obsessive friendship story at its best a great read.

Thank you Netgalley for a copy for an honest review

I enjoyed this book and thank Netgalley and the publishers for giving me the opportunity to read it.

Judith wants to be your friend by Annie Weir.
If Judith decides to be your friend, she’ll make it happen. She’ll find out what you do and where you go. She’ll make sure she’s there too. 
36-year-old Judith Dillon hasn’t found her place in society. She struggles to make and maintain relationships, especially with women. In Carlisle in September 2009, Judith becomes attracted to Joanna. She follows her, finds out about her family and infiltrates her life. By Christmas they are close enough for Joanna to insist that Judith spends Christmas Day with them. However, all does not go as planned as Joanna’s mother drinks too much and asks Judith awkward questions about her past. That is the start of Judith’s past life catching up with her. 
Judith stood and watched the scene. It appeared to her that the world has suddenly become silent, a sort of calm before a storm or a picture frozen in time. She turned and walked back to her car where she sat for a few moments struggling to comprehend what she had just witnessed, then she switched on the engine. As she approached the exit from the station car park, she had to wait to allow the ambulance and two police cars through. 
In another twist, Judith resents Maureen, her supervisor in the cash office of a large supermarket, and is determined to set her up by making it look as though she is stealing money. She quietly takes opportunities to sabotage Maureen’s work – even going as far as to seduce one of the managers, believing this will strengthen her power base at the store. She has, however, overlooked something which leads to her being found out... 
This was a good read. Some characters I liked some I didn't. I wasn't sure about judith. 4*.

'Judith Wants To Be Your Friend' by Annie Weir was a strangely compelling and original read. Judith Dillon, the main character, is both a sad and a sinister sort of character and I couldn't quite decide where my sympathies lay; was she just someone who was misunderstood, and without the appropriate social skills to make friends, or was she someone whose outward behaviour reflected an inner malicious intent. My opinion swayed between the two constantly, and even at the very end I was undecided. There is no doubt that she was spiteful and manipulative in her most recent employment at the cash office in Carlisle, and yet she was able to form a consummated relationship with a man who obviously found her attractive and wanted to spend time with her. Her relationship with her family was...difficult, to say the least; her sister Fiona thought her uncaring and blunt, and yet despite her antipathy towards her family, Judith still made an effort to go and see her mother, as well as remain in contact with Fiona and her niece Rosie.
Underpinning everything is the flashbacks to her life before she relocated to Carlisle. What was it that made her lose interest in a lucrative business in Hexham that paid for a flash car and luxury flat, even before the complications of her 'friendship' with Chloe? Is it that her early childhood memories of her mother's steady criticism, (something that isn't dwelt on, but nevertheless crops up regularly) meant she was destined to be a failure; and that everything she touched was sure to end in disaster? Is she someone suffering from depression or other mental health conditions/syndromes? Or is she simply what Chloe's best friend Louise, among others, describes as 'a bit strange.'
'Judith Wants To Be Your Friend' is the story of a very complex character who intrigued me greatly. I give it 4 out of 5 stars.

This book was interesting and makes you consider your own friendships. Judith gets obsessive about friends and tries to infiltrate herself into every part of their lives. You do not find out what happened in her earlier life to make her this way which I feel was lacking in the story.

I did not particularly like the character of Judith and she seemed needy. She craved friendship but was overbearing. I liked the story but I felt it needed more background.