Someone who was in fact desperately lonely, dealing with life's problems alone due to her reluctance to open up. Someone who could not express her feelings, and whose calm facade was misinterpreted by others. Labelled 'unemotional' and 'aloof' by those around her, her internal monologue showed a rather different picture. I had huge sympathy for Frances character, despite her being very different from me and her behaviour not always being exemplary. Despite an age gap of over a decade, the four start to socialise together, but when Frances and Nick form a mutual attraction things start to get very complicated. She performs her poetry with her best friend, Bobbi, and it is through those performances that they meet Melissa, a photojournalist, and her actor husband Nick. The narrator of the novel is Frances, a 21 year old poet and student at Trinity College in Dublin. I'm pretty sure if anyone else had written the same events, I wouldn't have enjoyed it. But there's something about the way that Sally Rooney writes that really gets through to me. 'Conversations with Friends' is basically an entire novel devoted to the forensic description and analysis of the relationships between four people. ![]() ![]() I'm usually not a fan of 'character driven' books, or of books about my own generation (so called millennials). ![]() It's always a mark of a good author if they can make you enjoy a book in a genre you don't normally like reading.
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