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Conversations with Friends

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

Frances is twenty-one years old, cool-headed, and observant. A student in Dublin and an aspiring writer, at night she performs spoken word with her best friend Bobbi, who used to be her girlfriend. When they are interviewed and then 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, the sharply witty and emotion-averse Frances is forced to honestly confront her own vulnerabilities for the first time.

 

 

 

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Sally
Rooney

Sally Rooney is an Irish novelist. She is the author of Conversations with Friends, Normal People and Beautiful World, Where Are You.

Sally Rooney is an Irish novelist. She is the author of Conversations with Friends, Normal People and Beautiful World, Where Are You.

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NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS

Notably popular with our reading groups and nominated by them as their book of the year.

An honest and smart new voice in literature. With so many wonderful quotes and a really relatable, rather unsympathetic (just enough to be believable) main character.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Date published
25/05/2017
Author
Publisher
Faber and Faber

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