You’d be pretty surprised if someone asked for a book that made them “look dumb” and a bookseller pulled out fellow Costa Prize winners The Satanic Verses or An Artist of the Floating World.
Critics have praised Rooney’s intelligence and her ability to capture the zeitgeist of her generation. Rooney has a knack for capturing certain flickers of emotion and split section thoughts that we’ve all had at one time or another.Except Rooney was longlisted for the Booker Prize, nominated for the Dylan Thomas and Rathbones Folio Prizes, and won the Costa Award, Irish Book Award, and British Book Awards, in addition to being named the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. While I think Normal People, the latest by Rooney, is slightly stronger, Conversations with Friends was incredibly captivating perhaps just as well written. Through their relationship, Frances grapples with her own identity, her own needs, as well as health and family issues. Nick and Frances start a friendship that turns into something much more. Frances and Bobbi become wrapped up in Melissa’s sophisticated and creative life, as well as that of her husband Nick, who she doesn’t seem to love. The latter is intimidatingly smart, and at times antagonistically witty.īecause of their performances a well-known writer and photographer, Melissa, writes a piece about them for a magazine. What Conversations with Friends offers is a deep dive into the psyche of a young woman whose muted emotions and self-delusions are as relatable as they are fascinating.įrances, the seemingly perpetually composed heroine, is studying writing at university and sometimes does spoken word performances with her longtime friend and former girlfriend, Bobbi. So please, do as I did and ignore the back cover summary. Luckily, I didn’t read the premise before I cracked Conversations with Friends open because I doubt I would’ve picked it up. “You underestimate your own power so you don’t have to blame yourself for treating other people badly.”Ĭonversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
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