![]() After the bar closes, she invites them back to the house she shares with her handsome husband Nick, an actor, for a drink. It is at a poetry night that Frances and Bobbi meet Melissa, a well-known photographer and journalist. ![]() Bobbi used to be Frances’ girlfriend and although they have split up, they seem as close as ever. She is also a poet who performs at spoken word nights with her best friend from school, the beautiful and self-assured Bobbi, who was once suspended from their secondary school for scrawling “fuck the patriarchy” on a wall near an image of the crucifixion. ![]() It is narrated by Frances, a bright 21-year-old university student who lives in Dublin. A delight from the first page to the last, it is a coming-of-age tale told by a young woman who is finding out who she is - and who she loves. Anyone who is concerned that conversation is a dying art among the young needs to read Sally Rooney’s astonishingly assured début Conversations with Friends (Faber, June). ![]()
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