Conversations with Friends : 'Brilliant, funny and startling.' GUARDIAN - Sally Rooney
Sally Rooney
- Pages · 352 pages
- Publication Date · 01/03/2018
- Genre · Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
A nuanced, page-turning portrait.' Zadie Smith
'Brilliant.' Marian Keyes'A sharp, darkly funny comment on modern relationships.' Sunday TelegraphThe 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 CENTURYOVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLDFrances 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 m�nage-�-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.'
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