The prose and pacing in Conversations with Friends is quick and light, the plot volatile and addictive. In May of this year, Hulu announced it will be producing a miniseries based on the book.īoth Rooney’s novels explore power dynamics between men and women, but where her first delves deeper into female relationships and friendships, Normal People keeps a tight focus on Marianne and Connell, the novel’s two main characters. Among other accolades, Normal People won best novel in the 2018 Costa Book Awards, was longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize and the 2019 Women’s Prize for fiction, and appeared at number twenty-five in the Guardian’s list of the hundred best books of the twenty-first century. The following year, Faber published her second novel, Normal People, which was released in the US in April 2019. Irish writer Sally Rooney has been a sensation since her debut novel, Conversations with Friends, was published in 2017, when she was just twenty-six.
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