Conversations With Friends

FROM THE AUTHOR OF NORMAL PEOPLE ADAPTED FOR A BBC THREE DRAMA, PREMIERING ON APRIL 26, 2020This book. This book. I read it in one day. I hear Im not alone. Sarah Jessica Parker InstagramWINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES PFD YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2018SHORTLISTED FOR THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2018SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2018SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2019LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2018A SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEARA SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTYFIRST CENTURYFrances is twentyone years old, coolheaded and observant. A student in Dublin and an aspiring writer, at night she performs spoken word with her best friend Bobbi, who used to be her girlfriend. When they are interviewed and then befriended by Melissa, a wellknown 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 menageaquatre. But when Frances and Nick get unexpectedly closer, the sharply witty and emotionaverse Frances is forced to honestly confront her own vulnerabilities for the first time.