conversations with friends sally rooney review

The Dublin setting offers the perfect backdrop to the cast of creative characters and the tale itself is introspective and literary yet highly accessible, and enthralling and unpredictable throughout. As a story, it explores the complexities of female friendships, privilege and romantic relationships, and the author’s writing is both raw and refreshing. While the Conversations with Friends characters are deeply flawed and often unlikeable, together they make for engaging reading, and with a pacy and prose-rich plot, Rooney delivers an unputdownable book from start to finish. RELATED: Review: The Multi-Hyphen Method - Emma Gannon She’s beguiled by Melissa and Nick’s financial stability, though she identifies as a communist she’s unwilling to make any plans for the future or enter the workforce, and she struggles with issues with her body and her difficult and irresponsible father. When Frances finds herself kissing Nick at a party, the pair begin a complicated affair and set in motion a chain of events that sees the two young poets enter into a sophisticated world of expensive houses and holidays in France, a world away from their own reality. They soon meet an enigmatic older couple, photographer and essayist Melissa, who takes an interest in Bobbi and Frances and wants to write a piece about them, and her tall, dark and handsome husband, Nick, a bored actor who quickly enters into a flirtation with Frances. Conversations with Friends reviewĪ subtle and thought-provoking book, Conversations with Friends tells the tale of twenty-one year old aspiring writer Frances and former girlfriend Bobbi who now perform spoken word poetry together in Dublin.

And then, all of a sudden, I saw the Irish author and her books everywhere online – it seemed that every single person was reading, tweeting, or talking about, one of her novels, and so when I visited Berkelouw Books in Rose Bay the very next day and saw Conversations with Friends taking centre stage of their display, I immediately bought it and read it almost as swiftly, before penning my Conversations with Friends book review. They mentioned both of Sally Rooney’s books – her debut, Conversations with Friends, and her Man Booker long-listed second novel, Normal People.

I had just finished How Do You Like Me Now by Holly Bourne and was listening to the High Low podcast on a rather long walk, when its hosts, Dolly Alderton and Pandora Sykes discussed the books they’d been reading recently.

I was rather late to the party when it came to Sally Rooney and this Conversations With Friends Review.

Conversations with friends sally rooney review