![]() ![]() Rooney’s writing does at times fall into the trap of self-indulgence which is always a threat in first person bildungsroman’s especially those written in the last couple of decades. The actual plot of the novel follows Frances a 21-year-old university student and poet who finds herself entangled in a complex ménage-à-quatre and her affair with Nick, an older married man, all whilst she tries to work out who she really is on her own.įrances was a character I really felt a connection too, read into that what you will about my personality. ![]() You can read it as a book about infidelity, about the pleasures and difficulties of intimacy, or about how our minds think about our bodies.” Personally, I read it as a coming of age for the time we actually live in. Faber says “you can read Conversations with Friends as a romantic comedy, or you can read it as a feminist text. The New Yorker read Conversations with Friends “a new kind of adultery novel”. ![]() Despite being part of a genre I tend to turn to, it’s not a book I’d heard of before it was being snuck into my bag. Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends, is another book I didn’t actually pick up myself, and I’m not sure I would have if I hadn’t been loaned it. ![]()
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