• Beautiful World, Where Are You

  • By: Sally Rooney
  • Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
  • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (124 ratings)

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Beautiful World, Where Are You

By: Sally Rooney
Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
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Publisher's summary

*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

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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I read it straight after Conversations with Friends and it seemed a bit repetitive and some of the logic of the characters just wasn't believable to me.

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Interesting and immersive

What a beautiful book. Her books just better and better! so interestingly written and I can't help picturing my life as a Salley Rooney novel!

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Not a good voice

The voice of the narrator is not at all good. The male voices are bad and so artificial. Loses the essence of story.

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Rather dull stuff

The bbc radio 4 reading was better. Both though tell the same pretty tepid tale.

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