Frances, whose best friend Bobbi is also her former girlfriend, falls for Nick, an older, married actor. The plot of Conversations is essentially a rather more crowded version of the classic “girl meets boy, girl loses boy, girl finds boy” story (Claire Lowdon, Sunday Times). But Conversations is a novel nonetheless, and novels, as Rooney goes on to point out, depart from life not least in having plots. However the similarities between Rooney’s own life and that of Frances, the heroine of her debut novel Conversations with Friends, are impossible to miss.įrances, Conversations’ twenty-one-year-old fledgling-author narrator, ‘moves in all the same social circles’ as Rooney, is studying for the same degree that Rooney pursued at Trinity College, Dublin, and ‘has some of the same cultural position ’ ( The Tangerine). Sally Rooney is not, as she observed in an interview with the Belfast-based magazine The Tangerine, a writer of ‘autofiction’.
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