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Irish quartet: Beautiful World, Where Are You?, by Sally Rooney, reviewed

11 September 2021

9:00 AM

11 September 2021

9:00 AM

Beautiful World, Where Are You? Sally Rooney

Faber, pp.337, 16.99

The millennial generation of Irish novelists lays great store by loving relationships. One of the encomia on the cover of Donal Ryan’s Strange Flowers (Irish Book Awards Novel of 2020) declares: ‘You have to truly love people to write like this.’

It’s hard to imagine that being said of Colm Tóibín or Anne Enright (let alone Vladimir Nabokov, Evelyn Waugh or Muriel Spark).

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