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'Beautiful World, Where Are You is Rooney's best novel.' THE TIMES The Sunday
Times and Global number one bestseller Winner of Novel of the Year at the An
Post Irish Book Awards Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a
warehouse, and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. 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. Alice, Felix, Eileen and
Simon are still young - but life is catching up with them. They desire each
other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They worry
about sex and friendship and the world they live in. 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? 'A tour de force. The dialogue
never falters, and the prose burns up the page.' GUARDIAN 'Rooney's strongest
writing thus far . . . There is a touching honesty and truthfulness in these
pages, along with a quiet brilliance.' FINANCIAL TIMES 'The book moved me to
tears more than once . . . Rooney's best novel.' THE TIMES 'Rooney's best
novel yet. Funny and smart, full of sex and love and people doing their best
to connect.' Brandon Taylor, NEW YORK TIMES 'Written with immense skill and
illuminated by an endlessly incisive intelligence.' IRISH TIMES 'Beautiful
World, Where Are You is not just worth reading. It's worth thinking about.'
IRISH INDEPENDENT 'Brilliantly done: gripping, steamy, unbearably sad.'
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