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Narrated by:
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Aoife McMahon
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By:
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Sally Rooney
About this listen
*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 & FaberCritic 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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- Anonymous User
- 03-10-2021
Interesting
I found the story interesting.. fairly slow in parts and the email exchanges between the two women quite political and tedious. As I loved Normal People I was a little disappointed in this book . I didn’t mind it , but didn’t love it ..
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- Anonymous User
- 10-12-2021
Dull
I was expecting a lot because of how much I loved Normal People (like most of us), but found this boring imitation of it instead. Few twists: instead of one couple there’s 2, but same idea: one is low class, the other is wealthy. Same erotic scenes. Same descriptions of how people look…
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- Elke
- 14-03-2023
Look you just have to enjoy the language
Beautifully written and I enjoyed it, but yes as per other reviews- you really need to revel in nothingness
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- Sophie van den Bogaerde
- 28-12-2021
Plot lacking
I love Rooney’s writing and found some of the moments very poignant. However, what the novel lacks is a plot. It was very meandering, unfortunately. Love the narrator.
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- Natasha
- 17-06-2024
loved the narration. was so captivating
it was a great story- I was hooked from beginning to end. found myself loving then hating each character individually like they were my own friends
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- Ellen
- 02-12-2021
Obsessed!
No one writes sexy, broody, intellectually charged characters like Sally Rooney. I loved listening to this.
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- Gemma
- 09-01-2022
Eh…
Why are all the women in Sally Rooney’s books so submissive and self-degrading? And everyone is kind of an asshole. I couldn’t tell which character I was listening to speak because they all sounded the same to me (one woman voice and one mans voice)
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- DocR
- 13-03-2022
Sally you make the world beautiful with your words
Another incredible portrayal of incredibly complex but multi layered characters. I loved loved this book. I will recommend this to everyone. Aoife is very talented and again her voice gives life to remarkable characters
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- Anonymous User
- 20-09-2021
Engaging
I love Sally Rooney’s writing - really enjoyable listen especially with the Irish accent of the reader. Highly recommend for engaging easy listening.
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- Adrianne
- 14-10-2021
Book is good, but the author's hypocrisy is sad
This will sadly be the last book I read or review of Sally Rooney's work, which in the case I found to be a poorer echo of Normal People. Her flawed and hypocritical decision not to translate her book into Hebrew due to the so-called cultural boycott of Israel, fills me with such loathing that I cannot abide by it. But since one of her leading characters revels in her new-found wealth as a writer, I guess it's easy to understand why she doesn't apply her high principles to countries with much larger readerships and much greater crimes, because she has too much $ to lose if she did. Shame on you Sally Rooney.
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