Conversations with Friends

'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 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

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 menage-a-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.'