Conversations with Friends

A novelist to watch: An addictive debut, with nods to Tender is the Night, heralds a bright new talent ― Sunday Times

A sharp, darkly funny comment on modern relationships. Required reading. ― Sunday Telegraph

An addictive, funny and truthful first novel about love and literature. ― Metro

A dazzling new talent. ― Mail on Sunday

This is a novel to set beside Lena Dunham’s Girls, Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag, Noah Baumbach’s Frances Ha . . . I can’t wait to see what Rooney serves up next. ― Sunday Times

Fearless, sensual writing . . . A dynamic debut novel about the messy, overlapping relationships between four captivating characters ― Irish Times

I love this novel . . . A contemporary love story so powerful, graceful and honest it left me reeling . . . It is, by turns, astonishing, heart-rending and perfect; there’s not a word out of place. — Luke Kennard, author of ‘Transition’

Fascinating, ferocious and shrewd. Sally Rooney has the sharpest eye for all of the most delicate cruelties of human interaction. — Lisa McAnarney, author of The Glorious Heresies

So good I felt something akin to grief the moment I finished it . . . Glimmer[s] with humors, compassion, insight and truth . . . Rooney shares with Plath a knack for particularising a feminine consciousness, and this novel is the best I’ve read on what it means to be young and female right now. ― Daily Mail

A book that will appeal to anyone interested in friendship, jealousy, the politics of love (so, everyone?). It is an intelligent and moving novel, a brilliantly accurate portrayal of what it is to be a young woman. ― The Pool

I really like her book Conversations with Friends. I like the tone she takes when she’s writing. I think it’s like being inside someone’s mind. — Taylor Swift