Intermezzo [2024] paperback

Intermezzo

Sally Rooney

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family, from
the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.
Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little
in common.
Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties – successful, competent and apparently
unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep
and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women – his
enduring first love Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long
joke.
Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself
as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early
weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her
own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.
For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude – a period
of desire, despair and possibility – a chance to find out how much one life might hold
inside itself without breaking.

REVIEWS
‘The literary phenomenon of the decade.’ Guardian on NORMAL PEOPLE
‘I love Sally Rooney. She has many imitators, but few equals.’ Zadie Smith
‘I can’t think of another writer who so perfectly captures the intensity and the pain
of both friendship and romantic love.’ Red

CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS TRACK RECORD: Over one million copies sold
across all editions. A Sunday Times Top 100 novel of the twenty-first century. Winner of the
Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer of the Year. Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, the
Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year, the Rathbones Folio Prize and the International Dublin
Literary Award. A Sunday Times, Observer and Telegraph Book of the Year.
NORMAL PEOPLE TRACK RECORD: Over three million copies sold across all editions. A
number one Sunday Times and top five New York Times bestseller that was adapted into an
Emmy-winning TV series. Winner of the Costa Novel Award, Novel of the Year at the Irish
Book Awards and both Novel of the Year and Book of the Year at the British Book Awards.
Shortlisted for the RSL Encore Prize and the TikTok Book Awards. Longlisted for the Man
Booker Prize and the Women''s Prize for Fiction.
BEAUTIFUL WORLD, WHERE ARE YOU TRACK RECORD: Over one million copies sold
across all editions. A number one Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller. Winner of
Novel of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards and the Dalkey Literary Awards and of
Best Fiction in the Goodreads Choice Awards. Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Award. A
Times, Observer, Irish Times, Sunday Business Post, i News and Financial Times Book of the
Year.