Conversations With Friends

About “Conversations With Friends”

"Conversations with Friends" is a 2017 novel by Sally Rooney. It follows Frances, a coolheaded and darkly observant young woman studying in Dublin while vaguely pursuing a career in writing. Her best friend, Bobbi, is beautiful and self-possessed. At a poetry performance, they meet a well-known photographer, and the girls are gradually drawn into her world. Frances is reluctantly impressed by the photographer’s sophisticated home and her handsome husband, Nick. What begins as an amusing flirtation between Frances and Nick turns into a strange and painful intimacy. The novel is written with precise language and a sly sense of humor, capturing the pleasures and dangers of youth and the complex nature of female friendship.