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De: Sally Rooney

Narrado por: Éanna Hardwicke

THE GLOBAL #1 BESTSELLER

AN IRISH TIMES TOP 100 IRISH BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY

A BEST BOOK OF 2024 IN THE GUARDIAN, TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, IRISH TIMES, LONDON STANDARD, INDEPENDENT, OBSERVER, NEW STATESMAN, iNEWS, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, THE SKINNY, CITY AM, DAILY MAIL, AND THE CONVERSATION

'I read it in a state of rapture.' SUNDAY TIMES
'A tender, funny page-turner.' OBSERVER
'Come for the romance, stay for the meaning of life.' IRISH TIMES
'A breathtakingly intimate look at love and desire in its many different forms.' RED

From the author of the multimillion-copy bestseller

Normal People, an exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family.

Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.

Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties - successful, competent and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father's death, he's medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women - his enduring first love Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.

Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.

For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude - a period of desire, despair and possibility - a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.

©2024 Sally Rooney (P)2024 Faber & Faber

A realistic view of brothers in conflict

The narrator is great! I love the chapters from Ivan’s point of view and his love story. Peter is a complicated fella and sometimes difficult to feel empathy with. And the women are in the background. On purpose? Especially Naomi.

Excellent narration

It is actually easier to listen than to read this book (I have a hard copy)

Not my favourite

I adore Sally Rooney but this book just fell flat for me. Too much rumination without any reprieve.

Writing at it’s best

It was sometime difficult to differentiate between the male and female narration, otherwise an incredible story!

deep but not boring

good and well described characters. i enjoyed this book very much. even if it is a liitle sad it seems like real life

Beautiful Narration

The melancholy narration made this leap to life just beautiful 👏🏻 Sad but incredible writing wide beyond her years!

Fraught fraternal dynamics

Rooney's characters ponder: "What can life be made to accommodate, what can one life hold inside itself without breaking?" Apparently — like this novel — quite a lot! Excellent!

softest hand for the toughest journey

i guess she knows how to handle delicate situations better than my therapist otherwise i wouldn’t like to revisit my fathers death or reconsider my lost relationship with my sister after reading this book. hope to find 2 better halves soon. fingers crossed

Sally Rooney just gets better and better

I loved every minute of this complex and beautiful story, perfectly narrated by Éanna Hardwicke.
I cried.

Bad

I am really struggling to enjoy this due to the tonations of the readers voice