Conversations with friends by Sally Rooney

Conversations with friends by Sally RooneyFrom the bestselling author of Normal People, now a major TV series screening on Stan. Frances is a cool headed and darkly observant young woman, vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend and comrade in arms is the beautiful and endlessly self possessed Bobbi. At a local poetry performance one night, Frances and Bobbi catch the eye of Melissa, a well known photographer, and as the girls are then gradually drawn

A must-read for fans of Rachel Joyce's The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and Maria Semple's Where'd You Go

and those of their family and friends

it's mostly complicated by family

everything has changed

they confided that they felt 'on-the-floor lonely' sometimes because nobody was talking about what life was like for families like theirs

From this unravelling comes possibility

or a baby echidna

sex and the meaning of love' - Sydney Morning Herald 'A coming-of-age novel for the Peter Pan generation

fifteen-year-old Michael finds a brief respite from the pressures of school and the family horse-dealing business

With startling honesty

But Maureen is not like Harold

trees are each a little different