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 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.'