Beautiful World, Where Are You

The Sunday Times and Global number one bestseller 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.'— Telegraph Sally Rooney is the author of the novels Conversations with Friends and Normal People . She was the winner of the Sunday Times/Peters Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer Award in 2017. In 2018, Conversations with Friends was short-listed for both the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize, and Normal People was the Waterstones Book of the Year, won the Costa Novel Award, and was long-listed for the Booker Prize. Normal People won the Encore Award in 2019. Rooney was the editor of The Stinging Fly in 2018 and a Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library from 2019 to 2020. She was nominated for an Emmy for her work on the Hulu/BBC television adaptation of Normal People in 2020.