Conversations with Friends

NOW A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES ΓÇó From the New York Times bestselling author of Normal People . . . ΓÇ£[A] cult-hit . . . [a] sharply realistic comedy of adultery and friendship.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöEntertainment Weekly SALLY ROONEY NAMED TO THE TIME 100 NEXT LIST ΓÇó WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES (UK) YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD ΓÇó ONE OF BUZZFEEDΓÇÖS BEST BOOKS OF THE DECADE ΓÇó ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Vogue,Slate ΓÇó ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Elle Frances is a coolheaded and darkly observant young womanvaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend is the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi. At a local poetry performance one nightthey meet a well-known photographerand as the girls are then gradually drawn into her worldFrances is reluctantly impressed by the older womanΓÇÖs sophisticated home and handsome husbandNick. But however amusing Frances and NickΓÇÖs flirtation seems at firstit begins to give way to a strangeΓÇöand then painfulΓÇöintimacy. Written with gemlike precision and marked by a sly sense of humorConversations with Friends is wonderfully alive to the pleasures and dangers of youthand the messy edges of female friendship. SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD ΓÇ£Sharpfunnythought-provoking . . . a really great portrait of two young women as theyΓÇÖre figuring out how to be adults.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöCeleste NgLate Night with Seth Meyers Podcast ΓÇ£The dialogue is superbas are the insights about communicating in the age of electronic devices. Rooney has a magical ability to write scenes of such verisimilitude that even when little happens theyΓÇÖre suspenseful.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöCurtis SittenfeldThe Week ΓÇ£Rooney has the gift of imbuing everyday life with a sense of high stakes . . . a novel of delicious frictions.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöNew York ΓÇ£A writer of rare confidencewith a lucidexacting style . . . One wonderful aspect of RooneyΓÇÖs consistently wonderful novel is the fierce clarity with which she examines the self-delusion that so often festers alongside presumed self-knowledge. . . . But RooneyΓÇÖs natural power is as a psychological portraitist. She is acute and sophisticated about the workings of innocence; the protagonist of this novel about growing up has no idea just how much of it she has left to do.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöAlexandra SchwartzThe New Yorker ΓÇ£This book. This book. I read it in one day. I hear IΓÇÖm not alone.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöSarah Jessica Parker (Instagram)