A rare item, an unread uncorrected proof of the 2017 acclaimed debut novel from award-winning Irish author, writer, essayist and poet Sally Rooney.   This book was nominated for the Folio Prize and the Dylan Thomas Prize.   Her 2nd novel, 'Normal People ', won the 2019 Costa Award.   Both books were subsequently adapted into TV series'.   In 2022, Time Magazine named her as one of the 100 most influential people in the world.




'Conversations with Friends ' an uncorrected proof released by Faber and Faber in London ahead of the planned publication date of 1 June 2017, 1st edition thus, I understand this is the first state of the uncorrected proof, standard modern paperback, [vi] + 321 pages.





This is I understand the first state of the uncorrected proof of this debut novel in the plain yellow wrappers.   A subsequent 2nd state proof copy was issued in illustrated wrappers to match the design of the eventual hardback release (a copy of that proof copy is listed on Ebay at £350 per this link https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/387094230317?itmmeta=01J0V1EADXBZKYKGJANANP9CGX&hash=item5a209d352d:g:4cIAAOSwVxRmcDgk)



Internally in fine unread condition, no inscriptions or markings, light crease to lower corner of prelims.


Externally in very good+ condition, an unread copy with no spine creasing, plain yellow wrappers with red and blue lettering to the spine and both panels, light storage crease lines to both lower corners, handful of light marks to the wrappers, light rubbing to edges, hint of tanning to the text block, curl to wrappers when laid flat/upright.





** A scarce uncorrected proof copy of this important debut novel.   I can see no other examples of this first state yellow wrapper proof for sale worldwide at the time of listing **







The critically-acclaimed debut novel from the globally bestselling author of Normal People and Beautiful World, Where Are You.






Frances is twenty-one years old, cool-headed and observant.  At night she performs spoken word with her best friend Bobbi, who used to be her girlfriend.  When they are befriended by Melissa, a well-known journalist who is married to Nick, an actor, they enter a world of beautiful houses, raucous dinner parties and holidays in Provence, beginning a complex ménage-à-quatre.  But when Frances and Nick get unexpectedly closer, Frances is forced to honestly confront her own vulnerabilities for the first time.




You can read Conversations with Friends as a romantic comedy, or you can read it as a feminist text. 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.  However you choose to read it, it is an unforgettable novel about the possibility of love.






'The kind of novel that young women transitioning into adulthood in the early 21st century may one day call "seminal".'  Evening Standard













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