![]() But the prose is very literary – you can tell, because there are no quotation marks for speech, ha! You could read Conversations With Friends as a coming-of-age novel, but it’s not YA. The narrator, Frances, is very young (21 years old), as Rooney was at the time of writing (and still is, some might say!). ![]() ![]() The players are a lot more clearly delineated, and their motivations are at least fathomable, if not understandable. ![]() In that regard, Conversations With Friends shares a lot of genetic material with Normal People, Rooney’s second novel both feature young Irish intellectuals getting themselves tangled up in complicated love affairs.īut rather than a soapy on-again-off-again romance between two abhorrent youths, Conversations With Friends offers a sharper view of identity and intimacy. The situation quickly evolves into a Golden Bowl-esque love quadrangle, with Frances and Nick carrying on behind everyone’s backs while Bobbi pines after Melissa from afar. They meet a pair of married grown-ups, Melissa and Nick, who are almost-happily married (it would seem). (And, because we’re friends, if you do I’ll earn a small commission as an affiliate.)įrances and Bobbi are exes, and performance poets, and friends. ![]()
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