A smart and tenchant narrator - much like the author? - in Conversatoins with Friends

Yesterday's post was based on just a little (less than 10%) reading in Sally Rooney's Conversations with Friend and no doubt included some mistakes, e.g., the narrator, Frances, is 21 and lives in Dublin and I guess she must publish at least some of her poems because one acquaintance mentions reading some of them. Reading further the novel continues as a deep examination of the narrator and her relationship w/, or conversations w/ if you prefer, with 3 friends in particular: Bobbi, w/ whom she shares the stage as a performance artist, and a couple whose names I don't right now recall but the woman in an established writer-photographer who's working on a profile of the narrator and Bobbi, and that photog's husband, a very handsome stage actor. This man engages in long or at least frequent email exchanges w/ the narrator, which don't cross the line into sexual exploitation but do seem kind of creepy and a form of cheating: many late-night/early-a.m. emails about their friendship. It's obvious they're attracted to each other, and it's also obvious that his marriage - subject of much Frances-Bobbi discussion - is cold if not dead. Throughout, the narrator proves to be trenchant wit and shrewd observer of social interactions, so much so that I frequenlty mark passages w/ my notation "ha" - such as when Frances describes herself as on who takes compliments well, and then unpacks the meaning of such a statement. One suspects she's a lot like the sharp and trenchant writer herself. About 50 pp in we get into a deeper and darker view of Frances, and see what makes her so "cool" (to others) and cold and unfeeling (to herself, and to some others perhaps), as she goes to visit her mother in NE (?) Ireland, and we learn about her parents' estrangement, her father's drinking and his temper - alongside his love for his highly intelligent daughter. A visit to her father, in which he is living the the throes of squalor, is especially painful and gives us a sense of why this smart character has built so many defenses - ironic, caustic - against the pain of involvement w/ others.