Frances, a young Dublin poet and student, and her ex-girlfriend Bobbi perform spoken word together and become entangled with an older writer, Melissa, and her actor husband Nick. Frances begins an affair with Nick while examining her own detachment and the limits of intimacy.
Books mentioned in Conversations with Friends (4)
Middlemarch by George Eliot: “I went back out to the waiting room and saw my mother reading my copy of Middlemarch.”
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams: “Nick’s in the Royal this month, Melissa said. He’s doing Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.”
Hamlet by William Shakespeare: “Nick had started rehearsing for a production of Hamlet”
The Lake Isle of Innisfree by W. B. Yeats: “I practically had to stop him reciting ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’ in the bar.”