Conversations with Friends
'Brilliant, funny and startling.' GUARDIAN
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4.0 • 722 Ratings
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Publisher Description
'A nuanced, page-turning portrait.' Zadie Smith
'Brilliant.' Marian Keyes
'A sharp, darkly funny comment on modern relationships.' Sunday Telegraph
The critically-acclaimed debut novel from the globally bestselling author of Normal People and Beautiful World, Where Are You.
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 25 NOVELS OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD
Frances is twenty-one years old, cool-headed and observant. At night she performs spoken word with her best friend Bobbi, who used to be her girlfriend. When they are befriended by Melissa, a well-known journalist who is married to Nick, an actor, they enter a world of beautiful houses, raucous dinner parties and holidays in Provence, beginning a complex ménage-à-quatre. But when Frances and Nick get unexpectedly closer, Frances is forced to honestly confront her own vulnerabilities for the first time.
Readers love Conversations with Friends:
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Completely engulfs you. I missed it when I finished reading.'
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Sucked me in and didn't let me go until the very end.'
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Portrays love and obsession and friendship and anxiety in such accurate detail, I feel like I've lived it.'
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Rooney's writing is completely addictive.'
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'I wish I could read it for the first time all over again.'
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Critics love this book. We love this book. We’re incredibly confident you’ll love this book. It’s one of those very rare debut novels: supremely confident without being showy, masterfully paced and full of delicious characters that feel like old friends (or enemies) by its conclusion. Frances is a detached, self-possessed student who performs spoken word poetry with best pal (and ex-school girlfriend) Bobbi. Suddenly plunged into Dublin’s literary scene, they become entangled with society couple Melissa—a thrill-seeking journalist—and her laconic actor husband Nick. The quartet’s wonderfully complex, intertwining dynamic becomes very dramatic very quickly and helps create a devilishly easy-to-devour study in human relationships.
Customer Reviews
Absolutely Addictive
I completely agree with the other reviews, I couldn’t put the book down.
Beautifully written - Sally is a very talented writer.
Alright
Hated all the characters, especially Frances
Obsessed
Loved this book so much! I was clinging to every sentence and never wanting it to end!