Writer Sally Rooney achieved monumental success with her novel, Normal People, which went from strength to strength after Hulu released its highly praised, Emmy-nominated adaptation. With the lead characters of Marianne and Connell memorably played by Daisy Edgar-Jones and Paul Mescal, it’s no wonder that the story once again captured people’s imaginations.
As her second book, Normal People followed her brilliant debut novel, Conversations with Friends, which was released in 2017 to great critical acclaim and is itself being adapted for television.
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Given the success of Sally Rooney's previous books and the reception to the Normal People show, fans across the world are no doubt keen to read more from the popular Irish novelist. And now it seems they won’t have to wait too much longer after all.
It has now been announced that Sally Rooney’s third novel, Beautiful World, Where Are You will be released on September 7, 2021. It’s understood that a fourth book will then follow shortly after.
What will Sally Rooney’s new book be about?
Just like Conversations with Friends and Normal People, Beautiful World, Where Are You promises to be another insightful story that focuses on Irish millennials negotiating their own path through romance and social upheaval. Beautiful World, Where Are You will follow novelist Alice, who meets warehouse worker Felix and subsequently invites him if he’d like to join her on a trip to Rome.
Meanwhile, Alice’s best friend Eileen in Dublin is still getting over a break-up and finds herself flirting with Simon, who she has known ever since childhood.
They may all be young with their lives ahead of them, but life isn’t always straightforward. Desiring and misleading each other, romances form and are broken apart. Soon they must question if there is a way to believe in a beautiful world after all.
"The title itself speaks to some of the book’s themes, it’s an unanswered question," Mitzi Angel, the publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux reportedly told The New York Times.
"The characters are contemplating a world in which the future is very uncertain for them — what’s the world of work going to look like, what’s going to happen to the planet, what are the politics we are all living through. I think the stakes are higher.”
Sally Rooney's new novel is surely set to be one of 2021’s most anticipated books.
Are you just as excited to read it as we are?
