'_Beautiful World, Where Are __You_ is Rooney's best novel.' _THE TIMES_ *THE _SUNDAY TIMES_ AND GLOBAL NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER* *WINNER OF NOVEL OF THE YEAR AT THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS* 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 worry about sex and friendship 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? 'A tour de force. The dialogue never falters, and the prose burns up the page.' _GUARDIAN_ 'Rooney's strongest writing thus far . . . There is a touching honesty and truthfulness in these pages, along with a quiet brilliance.' _FINANCIAL TIMES_ 'The book moved me to tears more than once . . . Rooney's best novel.' _THE TIMES_ 'Rooney's best novel yet. Funny and smart, full of sex and love and people doing their best to connect.' BRANDON TAYLOR_, NEW YORK TIMES_ 'Written with immense skill and illuminated by an endlessly incisive intelligence.' _IRISH TIMES_ '_Beautiful World, Where Are You_ is not just worth reading. It's worth thinking about.' _IRISH INDEPENDENT_ 'Brilliantly done: gripping, steamy, unbearably sad.' _TELEGRAPH_