Conversations With Friends ('brilliant, Funny And Startling.' Guardian)

By (author) Sally Rooney; By (author) Rooney, Sally
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A sharply intelligent novel about friendship, lust, jealousy, and the unexpected complications of adulthood in the 21st century.
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''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.''

Biographical note:
Sally Rooney is an Irish novelist. She is the author of the novels Conversations with Friends, Normal People, Beautiful World, Where Are You and Intermezzo.
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The critically-acclaimed debut novel by Sally Rooney.
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A novelist to watch: An addictive debut, with nods to Tender is the Night, heralds a bright new talent
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A sharp, darkly funny comment on modern relationships. Required reading.
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An addictive, funny and truthful first novel about love and literature.
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A dazzling new talent.
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This is a novel to set beside Lena Dunham''s Girls, Phoebe Waller-Bridge''s Fleabag, Noah Baumbach''s Frances Ha . . . I can''t wait to see what Rooney serves up next.
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Fearless, sensual writing . . . A dynamic debut novel about the messy, overlapping relationships between four captivating characters
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I love this novel . . . A contemporary love story so powerful, graceful and honest it left me reeling . . . It is, by turns, astonishing, heart-rending and perfect; there''s not a word out of place.
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Fascinating, ferocious and shrewd. Sally Rooney has the sharpest eye for all of the most delicate cruelties of human interaction.
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So good I felt something akin to grief the moment I finished it . . . Glimmer[s] with humour, compassion, insight and truth . . . Rooney shares with Plath a knack for particularising a feminine consciousness, and this novel is the best I''ve read on what it means to be young and female right now.
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A book that will appeal to anyone interested in friendship, jealousy, the politics of love (so, everyone?). It is an intelligent and moving novel, a brilliantly