A compact tour de force about sex, violence and self-loathing from a ferociously talented new voice in fiction, perfect for fans of Sally Rooney, Rachel Cusk, Lydia Davis and Jenny Offill.

Composed almost exclusively of conversations between women --- the stories they tell each other, and the stories they tell themselves --- TOPICS OF CONVERSATION careens through 20 years in the life of an unnamed narrator hungry for experience and bent on upending her life. In exchanges about shame and love, infidelity and self-sabotage, Miranda Popkey touches upon desire, disgust, motherhood, loneliness, art, pain, feminism, anger, envy and guilt. Edgy, wry and written in language that sizzles with intelligence and eroticism, this novel introduces an audacious and immensely gifted new novelist.