The great debut of Sally Rooney with one of the most anticipated fiction novels of 2018. A fresh story about love and against labels in relationships.

After reciting their poems at a literary evening in Dublin, Frances and Bobbi meet Melissa, an attractive writer who wants to publish a report about them. These two university students who were once a couple will be drawn to her and her husband Nick: a well-off couple approaching their forties with whom they will end up forming a complex ménage à quatre.

Set in the Irish artistic bohemia, this story of free love and ambiguous relationships offers an honest portrait of a generation that rejects imposed labels.

Between book presentations, theater premieres, and vacations in French Brittany, the characters' conversations turn Sally Rooney's debut into a novel of ideas marked by witty dialogues and a keen sense of humor. The author explores the delicate cruelties of human interaction in an intelligent work about friendship, desire, and jealousy.

As her characters discover the power they have over others, Rooney crafts an addictive story about the workings of innocence, the impact of infidelity, and the mirage of free will.

Conversations Between Friends has established Rooney as one of the most promising voices of her generation. A sharp and revealing work that is at once a coming-of-age novel, a comedy about love, and a feminist manifesto.

Reviews:
“WONDERFUL.”
The New Yorker

“She doesn’t write millennial literature: she wants to start a REVOLUTION.”
Playground

“LITERATURE in capital letters.”
El País

“Traditional LOVE is highly questionable.”
Vice

“Rooney has the gift of infusing a sense of high stakes into everyday life, a novel of delicious frictions.”
Christian Lorentzen, New York Magazine

“This 25-year-old left her job at a restaurant... and wrote a novel that started a bidding war.”
Alice O'Keeffe, The Guardian

“In this sharp and revealing debut, Rooney offers a ruthless perspective on the whims of relationships, a treatise on married life, the impact of infidelity, the ramifications of one’s own actions, and how the person one chooses to be with can shape one’s individuality.”
Publishers Weekly

“Rooney captures the mood and voice of contemporary women, their interpersonal connections and concerns, without seeming remotely predictable. An intelligent and timely work about a complex woman and her romantic relationships.”
Kirkus

“An intelligent, sexy, and realistic portrait of a woman searching for herself.”
Booklist

“Fascinating, fierce, and insightful. Sally Rooney has a developed eye for all the delicate cruelties of human interaction.”
Lisa McInerney, author of Los pecados gloriosos (winner of the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction)

“This book is remarkable because it insists on the need to complicate life and also on the right to pleasure, both for the characters and for the reader.”
Daily Telegraph

“It is a brilliantly written analysis of that moment in life when you discover how much power you can have over other people, and yet decide to use it badly.”
Stylist