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 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."