I’ve decided that Beautiful World, Where Are You was not an excellent read for me, but I am tempted to take a look at the screen adaptions of Rooney’s previous works. The narrator seemed to capture Rooney’s voice, but I struggled with her male character impressions.

I will admit that it was a real struggle to get through this one. I managed to buy into the hype and I found myself purchasing a copy of Sally Rooney’s new novel in audio format.

It is safe to say that Beautiful World, Where Are You has been one the most talked about and highly anticipated reads of 2021. The highly acclaimed author of two global bestsellers, one of which was longlisted for coveted Booker Prize, has been teasing her fans for some time now as her last release was published in 2018. I must be one of the very few reviewers and avid readers out there who have not picked up a Sally Rooney novel. When did life get so complicated and will this foursome manage to attain a sense of true happiness? Each questions their decisions and choices in life along the way. This proves to be a somewhat disastrous move as the two pivot between love, separation, desire, friendship and casual sex. The other relationship that Rooney exposes is between Alice’s friend Eileen and Simon, a man from her past who she hooks up with again. Rooney explores the different levels of this relationship as the story unfolds. We meet Alice, a successful novelist, who opens herself up to a new relationship with Felix, a warehouse distribution worker. As Rooney breaks down these relationships little by little, she also allows the audience to get to know these characters on an intimate level. A story of the ails of modern relationships, insecurities, friendships, communication and life in general, this is another millennial feel tale from the popular novelist.īeautiful World, Where Are You offers an intimate portrait into the lives of two couples. 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? Review:Īward winning Irish writer Sally Rooney returns after the success of her previous two novels with the highly anticipated Beautiful World, Where Are You. 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. Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a distribution warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. The new novel from the author of Normal People.

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