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Beautiful World, Where Are You

By: Sally Rooney
Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
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*The Sunday Times and Global number one bestseller*

*Winner of Novel of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards*

*A Book of the Year in The Times, the Guardian, the Irish Times and the Financial Times*

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 worry about sex and friendship and the times they live in. Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?

©2022 Faber & Faber (P)2022 Faber & Faber Coming of Age Contemporary Contemporary Romance Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Romance

Critic Reviews

'Beautiful World, Where Are You is Rooney's best novel.' The Times

'A tour de force.' Anne Enright, Guardian

'Rooney's best novel yet.' Brandon Taylor, New York Times
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No one writes sexy, broody, intellectually charged characters like Sally Rooney. I loved listening to this.

Obsessed!

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Why are all the women in Sally Rooney’s books so submissive and self-degrading? And everyone is kind of an asshole. I couldn’t tell which character I was listening to speak because they all sounded the same to me (one woman voice and one mans voice)

Eh…

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Another incredible portrayal of incredibly complex but multi layered characters. I loved loved this book. I will recommend this to everyone. Aoife is very talented and again her voice gives life to remarkable characters

Sally you make the world beautiful with your words

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I found the story interesting.. fairly slow in parts and the email exchanges between the two women quite political and tedious. As I loved Normal People I was a little disappointed in this book . I didn’t mind it , but didn’t love it ..

Interesting

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I was expecting a lot because of how much I loved Normal People (like most of us), but found this boring imitation of it instead. Few twists: instead of one couple there’s 2, but same idea: one is low class, the other is wealthy. Same erotic scenes. Same descriptions of how people look…

Dull

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Beautifully written and I enjoyed it, but yes as per other reviews- you really need to revel in nothingness

Look you just have to enjoy the language

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I love Rooney’s writing and found some of the moments very poignant. However, what the novel lacks is a plot. It was very meandering, unfortunately. Love the narrator.

Plot lacking

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it was a great story- I was hooked from beginning to end. found myself loving then hating each character individually like they were my own friends

loved the narration. was so captivating

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Emails between the friends were indulgent. Female characters insufferable and men not much better. Ending cheesy and expected. Listened because of book club. Wouldn’t have bothered otherwise.

Indulgent

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I love Sally Rooney’s writing - really enjoyable listen especially with the Irish accent of the reader. Highly recommend for engaging easy listening.

Engaging

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