Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney

Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Beautiful World, Where Are You is a new novel by Sally Rooney, the bestselling author of Normal People and Conversations with Friends

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 breakup, 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 have sex, they worry about sex, they worry about their friendships 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?

Sally Rooney was born in 1991 in the west of Ireland. The New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta, and The London Review of Books have all published her writing. She is the author of Talks with Friends, which won her the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. She was selected to the Time 100 Next list for the first time in 2019.