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Beautiful World, Where Are You

By Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney digital book - Fable

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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 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 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?

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1875 Reviews

3.5
Smiling Face with Heart-Eyes“Surprisingly optimistic, a book about a life-affirming, intellectually stimulating friendship between two women.....and also a couple of guys they are dating. For fans of Jane Austen and the Binchtopia podcast, probably”
Multi-layered charactersEasy to readFeel good
Loudly Crying Face“This book represents friendship and love in a way that is both realistic and charming. The characters were believable and multi-faceted. Sally Rooney never fails to take such simple plots and use them to dive so deeply into the humans she writes about. I think this is my favorite novel of hers.🩶”
Believable charactersCharacters change and growMulti-layered charactersBeautifully writtenOriginal writingRealistic settingComing of ageRomanticThought-provoking
Slightly Smiling Face“Who emails their friends in that kind of way?!”
Likable charactersDescriptive writingRealistic settingRomanticUnsatisfying plot
Loudly Crying Face“I will die on the hill that is Sally Rooney. Her books are so realistic and relatable, discussing the parts of life we don’t want to admit we experience, the pieces of us we hide from the rest of the world out of shame and embarrassment. She makes the simplicity of living feel peaceful again.”
Characters change and growMulti-layered charactersBeautifully writtenDescriptive writingAddictiveBeautiful settingRealistic settingComing of ageHeartbreakingThought-provoking
Thinking Face“This felt more like a diary than a book. There was no real story arch, I didn't like the ending, very basic but was an easy read. There were some nice parts that really made you think about what life is and what's important”
Easy to readThought-provokingUnengaging charactersUnsatisfying ending

About Sally Rooney

Sally Rooney is an Irish novelist. She is the author of Conversations with Friends and Normal People. She also contributed to the writing and production of the Hulu/BBC television adaptation of Normal People.

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