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Intermezzo
- Narrated by: Éanna Hardwicke
- Length: 16 hrs and 30 mins
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THE GLOBAL #1 BESTSELLER
'Intermezzo is perfect ... Is there a better novelist at work right now?' Anthony Cummins, Observer
'Her most mature and moving book to date ... I read it in a state of rapture.' Johanna Thomas-Corr, Sunday Times
'If a perfect Sally Rooney novel exists, this might just be it . Her best novel yet.' Evening Standard
'Rooney has discovered her full literary prowess.' Jo Hamya, Independent
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.
Sally Rooney's book Intermezzo was a bestseller w/c 30/09/2024
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- laura_ferrari@hotmail.com
- 03-10-24
intelligent prose
the story floored me really, I found the story so compelling, the little snapshot of time following a bereavement. it was such a beautiful story and the narrator was an excellent choice.
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- Lily Davis
- 26-10-24
Forensic exploration of grief
It took me a little longer to get into this, compared to previous Sally Rooney books, but I was drawn in so deep I felt I was living it.
The writing is so focused and detailed and yet so effortless and natural that each nuance, every thought and emotion is perfectly realised.
Sad and beautiful, I didn’t want it to end.
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- Suzanne Leedham
- 10-11-24
Solid novel good read but not quite great
I’ve been enjoying this book. Another strong showing for Irish literature. Sally Rooney does well to explore themes around relationships. It is generally well written but the author lacks an ability to change pace in her narrative. It is also a fairly standard attempt by a female to write through the eyes of male characters which doesn’t quite work. Whilst Sally’s charaterization is well devloped she hasnt full captured the male psyche. With a bit more work this good book could have achieved a great deal more.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-10-24
Incredible overall
Incredible performance, story and writing. Quite possibly her best piece of writing. The reading of it was done so beautifully. I wish I could experience it again for the first time.
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- Este Newington
- 12-10-24
Beautiful characterisation
It was a brilliant book with complex and intriguing characters. Rooneys writing added depth and insight into the characters thoughts and feelings and creating mushroomed conflicting sympathies. Incredibly moving and heartfelt.
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- Edelwais
- 11-10-24
Breathtaking
Amazing work. Sometimes difficult but all worth it. It reaches deep into your heart even when sometimes the intellectualisation goes over your head (a paper book would probably be better for these moments). The authenticity in the two men’s voices, the seemingly insignificant descriptions of nature, people, feelings- brilliantly crafted.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-10-24
A story of human nature
So easy to listen to. Addictive.. Beautiful story of how weird and wonderful with absolutely normal feelings, emotions and desires we as human beings are
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-11-24
Very good at describing the inner world of men
Spoiler alert……
I really liked this book up to a point that the elder brother was forced to choose. I suppose the writer wouldn’t be of her generation if she’d chosen the sort of ending which would have worked for me.
It seems to me that what makes life what it is is precisely having to choose.
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- R Turner
- 30-10-24
Snorefest
I have never listened to s book that so instantly sent me to sleep. The narration was so flat, so lifeless that it was like a stage curtain descending whenever the reader started, sleep overtook me. The story, dull as dishwater, just didn't have a single hook to keep me listening. Don't know how anyone enjoyed it.
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- Amazon Customer
- 07-10-24
Excellent
Loved the story, the nuanced characters and the very different style of writing between both personality types. A story of two brothers and the relationship between them and the people in their lives. A quirky story but beautifully written and read. Loved every minute of it.
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