Product Details Condition: Brand New Format: Paperback ISBN: 9780571333134 Publisher: Faber & Faber Age Range: Adult Overview Conversations with Friends is the dazzling debut novel from Sally Rooney, the multi-million-copy bestselling author of Normal People. Sharp, intimate and quietly devastating, it introduced the voice that came to define a generation of contemporary fiction. Following twenty-one-year-old Frances through the tangled emotional lives of four people in modern Dublin, this Faber & Faber paperback edition is ideal for book clubs, fans of literary fiction, and anyone who discovered Rooney through Normal People and wants to read where her remarkable career first began. About the Book Frances is twenty-one, cool, watchful and clever. A student in Dublin, she performs spoken-word poetry with her charismatic best friend and ex-girlfriend, Bobbi. When the two are drawn into the orbit of Melissa, an older, well-known writer, and her handsome actor husband Nick, Frances finds herself pulled into a world of beautiful houses, dinner parties and summers in France, and into an affair that unsettles everything she thought she knew about herself. As friendship, desire and jealousy blur, Frances must confront her own vulnerability, her convictions and her capacity to hurt and be hurt. Told in Rooney's now-iconic spare, precise prose, Conversations with Friends is a novel of conversations, the ones we perform, the ones we avoid, and the ones that change us. It captures the ache of being young and uncertain with startling honesty, exploring power, class, communication and intimacy in the connected, anxious world of modern relationships. Funny, forensic and emotionally exact, it announced Sally Rooney as one of the most exciting literary voices of her generation and remains a defining work of contemporary fiction, as compelling on a second reading as the first. Key Benefits The critically acclaimed debut from Sally Rooney, author of Normal People A modern literary favourite and enduring book-club choice Sharp, intimate storytelling on love, friendship, class and power A #BookTok sensation and a global contemporary-fiction phenomenon Perfect for fans of literary and coming-of-age fiction An ideal gift for readers who loved Normal People About the Author Sally Rooney was born in the west of Ireland in 1991 and is widely regarded as one of the defining novelists of her generation. She studied English at Trinity College, Dublin, and won the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award in 2017. She published Conversations with Friends to enormous acclaim, followed by the bestseller Normal People (adapted into a hit BBC/Hulu series), Beautiful World, Where Are You and Intermezzo. She is celebrated for her precise, emotionally intelligent prose. Why You'll Love This Novel If you were moved by Normal People, this is where Sally Rooney's brilliance begins. Intimate, sharp and impossible to put down, Conversations with Friends is a modern favourite of love and friendship that rewards re-reading, a must for any contemporary fiction shelf. Please Note: The book included in this listing will be dispatched as per the original UK ISBN and UK edition cover image shown.