It’s the kind of hype that starts to eat itself, and it’s clear from her latest book that the author could do without it. No other millennial writer in recent memory has generated quite so much literary consternation: her worth is debated in the culture sections of various magazines while her publishers erect ‘Sally Rooney pop-up’ shops for her eager fans. In a message I sent to a friend while halfway through Beautiful World, Where Are You, I wrote, ‘Sally Rooney would like everyone to know that she has read all of the thinkpieces we wrote about her and she thinks that they are very silly.’Īt the time I was trying to be funny, but something about the sentiment rings true. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?
They have sex, they worry about sex, they worry about their friendships and the world they live in. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. In Dublin, her best friend Eileen is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood.Īlice, Felix, Eileen and Simon are still young-but life is catching up with them. He new novel from the author of Normal People.Īlice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a distribution warehouse, and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her.
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