Conversations with Friends: 'Brilliant, funny and startling.' GUARDIAN
May 2017 · Faber & Faber
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** Sally Rooney's new novel Intermezzo is available now **
'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.
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.
'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.
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.
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Lisa Carlon
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May 9, 2021
well crafted debut thriller. I devoured it in one weekend. Tightly plotted. highly cinematic and descriptive. Loved the setting and it's convincing in the detail.Would make a limited series one day. very enjoyable overall and excellent debut novel
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Kath Crolla
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March 18, 2019
Second of hers I've read now and will be the last. Annoying characters who want to hurt themselves and can't make their minds up.
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Josephina Ballerina
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January 23, 2020
A lovely little ménage à quatre. This is a new author for me and her writing style is right up my cobbled street.
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About the author
Sally Rooney is the author of the novels Conversations with Frie nds, Normal People and Beautiful World, Where Are You . Her writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the London Review of Books and elsewhere . Conversations with Friends was shortlisted for both the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize, and longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize. Rooney was also shortlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award for 'Mr Salary' and was the winner of the Sunday Times /PFD Young Writer of the Year Award. Normal People was the Waterstones Book of the Year 2019 and won the Costa Novel of the Year in 2018. It was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2018, as well as the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Rathbones Folio Prize in 2019. Sally Rooney co-wrote the television adaptation of Normal People which was broadcast on the BBC in 2020, and for which she was nominated for an Emmy award.
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