'Sally Rooney writes with a rare, thrilling confidence, in a lucid and exacting style uncluttered with the sort of steroidal imagery and strobe flashes of figurative language that so many dutifully literary novelists employ. This isn't to say that the novel lacks beauty. Its richness blooms quietly.'
New Yorker
Frances, Bobbi, Nick and Melissa ask each other endless questions. As their relationships unfold, in person and online, they discuss sex and friendship, art and literature, politics and gender, and, of course, one another. Twenty-one-year-old Frances is at the heart of it all, bringing us this tale of a complex ménage-à-quatre and her affair with Nick, an older married man.
You can read Conversations with Friends as a romantic comedy, or you can read it as a feminist text. You can read it as a book about infidelity, about the pleasures and difficulties of intimacy, or about how our minds think about our bodies. However you choose to read it, it is an unforgettable novel about the possibility of love.
'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.' Daily Mail
'The kind of novel that young women transitioning into adulthood in the early 21st century may one day call "seminal".'
Evening Standard
'A novel of ideas that is driven by character; a very compelling combination.'
Daily Telegraph, FIVE STARS * * * * *
'Hugely enjoyable romantic comedy' Metro, FIVE STARS * * * * *
'Truly beguiles... Heralds a fresh new voice in fiction' Stylist, FIVE STARS * * * * *
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A novelist to watch: an addictive debut, with nods to Tender is the Night, heralds a bright new talent.
[An] addictive, salted-caramel combination of seriously tough humour and frank vulnerability.
This is a novel to set beside Lena Dunham's television series Girls, Phoebe Waller-Bridge's sitcom Fleabag, Noah Baumbach's film Frances Ha, Marielle Heller's morally intricate film The Diary of a Teenage Girl, and Katherine Heiny's superlative short-story collection Single, Carefree, Mellow. With all that on the menu, what a great time it is to be watching and reading. I can't wait to see what Rooney serves up next.
(Sunday Times)Hugely enjoyable romantic comedy... A very funny, very humanly messy tale of sexual and artistic self-discovery in which every page reveals shrewd emotional insight. Caught between laser-eyed irony and heart-melting sincerity, the book is a masterclass in narrative tone that left me desperate to read whatever Rooney writes next...
An addictive, funny and truthful first novel about love and literature.
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