Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney

He was slight and dark-haired, with a narrow face. At eight minutes past seven, a man entered through the door. Briefly and with no perceptible interest she examined her fingernails. It was four minutes past seven, and then five, six minutes past.

It was late March, the bar was quiet, and outside the window to her right the sun was beginning to set over the Atlantic.

She glanced at the screen of her phone, on which was displayed a messaging interface, and then looked back at the door again. Her appearance was neat and tidy: white blouse, fair hair tucked behind her ears. Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally RooneyĪ woman sat in a hotel bar, watching the door.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?,” Farrar, Straus and Giroux describes of the book.īelow, THR shares a first listen of an audiobook excerpt narrated by Aoife McMahon and the accompanying text from Rooney’s 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. Now in Rooney’s third novel, her first since the success of the Normal People adaptation, Rooney offers a new coming-of-age story. In Beautiful World, Where Are You (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), Rooney introduces new characters Alice, a novelist, her best friend Eileen and their love interests Simon and Felix as they navigate their jobs, relationships, anxieties and being young adults while trying to make sense of themselves and the world. Mallorca Travel: The Best Places and Ways to Unwind on the Celeb-Loved Spanish Island