'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 NOVELS OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD

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 ménage-à-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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