Roy Foster

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

Despite its sharp perceptions and atmospheric descriptions, Rooney’s latest novel about the relationships between two men and two women is a hard slog

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  • Beautiful World, Where Are You?

    Sally Rooney

    Faber, pp. 337, £16

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