Beautiful World, Where Are You

• 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? A tour de force.
– Anne Enright, Guardian Rooney’s best novel yet. – Brandon Taylor, New York Times Get ready to have your heart broken all over again.
– Red The book moved me to tears more than once. – The Times Beautiful World, Where Are You is Rooney’s best novel.
– The Times