'Beautiful World, Where Are You is Rooney's best novel.'
THE TIMES
 
Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her.
 
In Dublin, her best friend Eileen is getting over a break-up and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen and Simon are still young - but life is catching up with them.

They desire each other, they delude each other, they worry about sex and friendship and the times they live in.
 
Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?