Description
Beautiful World, Where Are You - Sally Rooney
From the author of Normal People and Conversations with Friends comes Beautiful World, Where Are You, an intimate contemporary novel about friendship, desire, love and the complicated search for meaning in modern life.
Alice is a successful young novelist who has recently moved away from Dublin. There she meets Felix, a man who works in a warehouse and whose life is very different from her own.
After barely knowing each other, Alice asks Felix whether he would like to travel to Rome with her.
Meanwhile in Dublin, Alice's best friend Eileen is recovering from a breakup and reconnecting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood.
Across conversations, relationships, messages and long emails, the lives of Alice, Felix, Eileen and Simon become increasingly intertwined.
They fall in love and pull away from one another. They desire intimacy while struggling with vulnerability. They think about friendship, sex, work, politics, religion and the changing world around them.
As their relationships develop, each character must confront the difference between the life they imagined and the life they are actually living.
Beautiful World, Where Are You combines Sally Rooney's sharp observations of human behaviour with an intimate examination of friendship, romantic relationships and the anxieties of contemporary adulthood.
Set between Ireland and Rome, the novel explores how people attempt to connect with one another in a world that can feel increasingly uncertain.
Perfect for readers who enjoy intelligent contemporary fiction, complex relationships, character-driven novels and literary stories about love and friendship.
Why You'll Love It
- Written by bestselling author Sally Rooney
- From the author of Normal People
- Contemporary literary fiction
- Follows four interconnected characters
- Explores friendship, love and intimacy
- Focuses on modern relationships and adulthood
- Set partly in Ireland and Rome
- Strong character-driven storytelling
- Explores work, society, faith and personal identity
- Ideal for readers of contemporary Irish fiction
- Excellent choice for literary-fiction readers
- Original Faber & Faber hardcover edition