Author
Sally Rooney
Sally Rooney is the Irish novelist behind Conversations with Friends (2017), Normal People (2018), Beautiful World, Where Are You (2021), and Intermezzo (2024). Her contemporary literary novels track the texture of millennial Irish working-and-romantic life with an almost Henry James precision.
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4
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Years active
2017-2024
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Normal People
by Sally Rooney
Normal People by Sally Rooney 2018 review. Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small Sligo town, attend Trinity College Dublin together, and orbit each other across four years of intermittent intimacy. The literary-fiction novel that defined the Rooney moment.
Conversations with Friends
by Sally Rooney
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney 2017 review. Two Dublin college students become entangled with an older married couple. Rooney's debut and the structural predecessor to Normal People.
Beautiful World, Where Are You
by Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney 2021 review. A famous Irish novelist and her Dublin best friend exchange philosophical emails. Rooney's third novel and the structural bridge between Normal People and Intermezzo.
Intermezzo
by Sally Rooney
Intermezzo by Sally Rooney 2024 review. Two Dublin brothers - a lawyer and a chess player - navigate grief and romance after their father's death. Rooney's fourth novel and her structurally most ambitious yet.
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Intermezzo by Sally Rooney 2024 review. Two Dublin brothers - a lawyer and a chess player - navigate grief and romance after their father's death. Rooney's fourth novel and her structurally most ambitious yet.
Normal People by Sally Rooney 2018 review. Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small Sligo town, attend Trinity College Dublin together, and orbit each other across four years of intermittent intimacy. The literary-fiction novel that defined the Rooney moment.
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney 2017 review. Two Dublin college students become entangled with an older married couple. Rooney's debut and the structural predecessor to Normal People.
Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney 2021 review. A famous Irish novelist and her Dublin best friend exchange philosophical emails. Rooney's third novel and the structural bridge between Normal People and Intermezzo.