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Twenty-one-year-old university student Frances, who loves poetry and writing, meets the somewhat famous writer Melissa and her actor husband Nick at a poetry reading with her ex-girlfriend Bobbi. The two young women are drawn into a bourgeois world of mansions, parties, and vacation homes, and captivated by their new friends, with whom they share witty conversations and intimate discussions. As they chat, a complex four-way relationship gradually unfolds. Frances, always timid and poor at expressing emotions, grows closer to Nick, and this intimacy forces her to confront her unprecedented vulnerability.

"Some things in life, you have to experience them before you can truly understand them."

A pair of literary young women who maintain their friendship after breaking up, and a stylish but estranged couple – two vastly different duos unexpectedly collide, sparking a complex four-way relationship. Sally Rooney, from a millennial perspective, examines how fragile contemporary committed relationships can be. Bold and fresh, the media hails this book as a modern-day "Bonjour Tristesse." They don't stumble upon an affair; they directly crash into a marriage, striving to appear unaffected. In post-economic crisis Dublin, pretentious young people lead seemingly mundane lives. After a series of clever conversations and profound life experiences, two female friends see everything they've overlooked in each other. However, youth is a privilege; even if you make mistakes, no one will truly blame you.