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Sally Rooney's new book Intermezzo has had fans queuing around the block as they wait to snatch up the novel released today.
After building up a cult-like following with a string of addictive and relatable novels, it appears self-described Marxist Sally Rooney, 33, from Ireland's County Mayo, has done it again with her latest novel.
Fans were pictured lining up outside bookshops across the UK and Ireland today, as they desperately sought to get their hands on the writer's fourth release.
Dozens of shops including London's Book Bar, exclusively opened their doors at 8am, with a number of live streams to cater to demand.
One shop in Dublin, where the new book is set, was pictured with tens of fans lining up for the doors to open.
Book Upstairs shared a post on social media saying they were 'totally blown away' by the turnout.
One shop in Dublin, where the new book is set, was pictured with tens of fans lining up for the store opening. Book Upstairs shared a post on social media saying they were 'totally blown away' by the turnout
Dozens of shops including London 's Book Bar, exclusively opened their doors at 8am earlier today, with a number of live streams to cater to demand
A mass of young women piled into Gower Street Waterstones in London just as the sun was starting to rise this morning. Posting on their Twitter, the shop revealed a slew of fans lining up outside the shop
Accompanied by a picture of a packed book shop, they wrote on social media: 'Very grateful to all these lovely early birds for choosing to shop independent and making it such a great morning. Feeling a lotta love for our Books Upstairs community. What a buzz.'
After securing a copy of the new release, fans sought refuge from the chilly September morning, as they were pictured enjoying a hot drink inside the Dublin book shop.
Meanwhile in the UK, fans queued for early doors at dozens of venues across the country, picking up tote bags, t-shirts, bookmarks and other merchandise being given away at some stores.
Book Bar in London offered exclusive t-shirts to their first 90 arrivals, as well as signed independent bookshop edition, personalised book jackets, and other goodies for for first-comers.
A mass of young women piled into Gower Street Waterstones in London just as the sun was starting to rise this morning. Posting on their Twitter, the shop revealed a slew of fans lining up outside the shop.
Prior to its release, critics hailed the new release, with the Guardian dubbing it 'breathtakingly intimate' and the Telegraph claiming it proves Rooney's greatness as a political writer.
Published by Faber, Intermezzo follows two brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek, who are grieving the loss of their father, and on the surface, appear to have little in common.
Peter is an established lawyer living in Dublin, successful in his field and assured of himself.
'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,' the summary reads.
One of those women being his first love Sylvia - a person he shares an emotional bond with, but they lack a physical relationship after an accident left her unable to have penetrative sex.
That takes Peter to the second woman in his life - 23-year-old hedonistic college student Naomi, a connection that satisfies Peter's physical needs.
His brother, on the other hand, leads a much different lifestyle and is a 22-year-old competitive chess player who admittedly struggles with social interaction.
The summary explains: '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 has seemingly exceeded expectations with her new novel Intermezzo, with a slew of critics commending the novel
After securing a copy of the new release, fans sought refuge from the chilly September morning, as they were pictured enjoying a hot drink inside the Dublin book shop
Accompanied by a picture of a packed book shop, Book Upstairs wrote on social media: 'Very grateful to all these lovely early birds for choosing to shop independent and making it such a great morning. Feeling a lotta love for our Books Upstairs community. What a buzz'
Intermezzo is set to reach bookshops on Tuesday 24 September (pictured: Sally Rooney)
Critics have hailed the new novel, with the Telegraph claiming it's proof of her expertise as a political writer
It's a tale that has received rave reviews from critics. Alexandra Harris of the Guardian said: 'Intermezzo is an accomplished continuation of the writing that made Rooney a global phenomenon. It's also more philosophically ambitious, stylistically varied, disturbing at times and altogether stranger.'
For the Telegraph's Cal Revely-Calder, the book further established Rooney's status as a 'great' political writer.
She depicts ordinary lives in unremarkable contexts, the sort any reader might know; she then shows those lives being warped by affairs of the heart that also, always, reveal disparities - economic, social, sexual - made flesh in the everyday: failed affairs, unhappy friendships, fractious groups,' Revely-Calder wrote.
Elsewhere, James Mariott of the Times wrote: 'The protagonists in the Irish author's fourth novel are sensitive, cultivated, highly intellectual and have great sex.'
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33-year-old Rooney came from humble beginnings with her own life experiences heavily influencing her work.
Born in Castlebar, a town of 10,000 or so people in County Mayo, a rural part of western Ireland, her mother was a teacher and father a technician who raised her with strong socialist values.
And this is seen massively in her work. All three novels are partly set in - or have characters from - rural western Ireland, while she has described herself as a 'solitary child' like Marianne in Normal People and went to Trinity College Dublin, like the protagonists in her first two novels.
Since Conversations with Friends came out in 2017, Sally's three novels have sold more than 1.3 million copies in the UK alone - and that's not counting pandemic sales which rocketed her back to the top of the best seller list thanks to the success of the TV adaptation of Normal People.
Normal People was the BBC's most streamed show of 2020, with an astonishing 62.7million views. It had a further 3 million views on Ireland's RTÉ Player, and even more on Hulu.
Her novel, Beautiful World, Where Are You, sold more than 45,000 copies in the UK in its first week of release, making it the bestselling hardback fiction title of 2021.
Bestselling author Sally Rooney, 33, from Ireland, has peppered her bestselling books with declarations about communism and ultra-left leaning ideas
While she's astonished the literary world becoming one of the youngest ever writers to win the prestigious Costa prize, she admits she had a 'terrible work ethic at school' and just wanted to be left to her own devices.
Sally went to an all-girls Catholic school, St. Joseph's Secondary School, and is said to have 'loathed' the experience.
She told the New Yorker: 'I just found it kind of baffling, the whole institution of school. I was, like, Does no one see that this is repressive, and that there are more of us than there are of them?'
The author boycotted homework while her parents told her to 'fight her own battles' when it came to schoolwork.
In a later interview with The Guardian, she said: 'I don't respond to authority very well. I fundamentally don't agree with accepting authority that you haven't agreed to in some way.'
She joined a writing group at 15 and went on to study at Trinity College, Dublin just like Marianne and Connell in Normal People and Frances and Bobbi in Conversations with Friends.
While she's astonished the literary world becoming one of the youngest ever writers to win the prestigious Costa prize, she admitted she had a 'terrible work ethic at school' and just wanted to be left to her own devices.
She hoped to study sociology and English, but was only accepted into the latter program.
A lot like her characters, she reinvented herself at University and became the star of the university debating team, who won the top university debating title in Europe.
The writer started her first novel, Conversations With Friends, in 2014 after starting a master's degree in American literature. When her essay about her debating experiences was spotted by a London literary agent, who asked to see more, the student sent her the manuscript.
Within months it was the subject of a seven-way bidding war between publishers. The rights eventually sold for a rumoured five-figure sum, and it was published in 12 languages at once in 2017.
Her mother Marie, was a a maths and science teacher, and father Kieran, a technician for Ireland's state-owned telecom company.
Marie spent two years volunteering in Lesotho in the eighties before becoming the director of the Linenhall, a community arts centre in Castlebar.
Sally has three novels, Normal People, Conversations with Friends and Beautiful World, Where Are You
The writer started her first novel, Conversations With Friends, in 2014 after starting a master's degree in American literature. When her 300 word essay about her debating experiences was spotted by a London literary agent, who asked to see more, the student sent her the manuscript.
The family attended church and Marie and Kieran were passionate about passing on socialist values.
After building up a cult-like following with a string of addictive and relatable novels, it appears self-described Marxist Sally Rooney, 33, from Ireland's County Mayo, has done it again with her latest novel.
Fans were pictured lining up outside bookshops across the UK and Ireland today, as they desperately sought to get their hands on the writer's fourth release.
Dozens of shops including London's Book Bar, exclusively opened their doors at 8am, with a number of live streams to cater to demand.
One shop in Dublin, where the new book is set, was pictured with tens of fans lining up for the doors to open.
Book Upstairs shared a post on social media saying they were 'totally blown away' by the turnout.
One shop in Dublin, where the new book is set, was pictured with tens of fans lining up for the store opening. Book Upstairs shared a post on social media saying they were 'totally blown away' by the turnout
Dozens of shops including London 's Book Bar, exclusively opened their doors at 8am earlier today, with a number of live streams to cater to demand
A mass of young women piled into Gower Street Waterstones in London just as the sun was starting to rise this morning. Posting on their Twitter, the shop revealed a slew of fans lining up outside the shop
Accompanied by a picture of a packed book shop, they wrote on social media: 'Very grateful to all these lovely early birds for choosing to shop independent and making it such a great morning. Feeling a lotta love for our Books Upstairs community. What a buzz.'
After securing a copy of the new release, fans sought refuge from the chilly September morning, as they were pictured enjoying a hot drink inside the Dublin book shop.
Meanwhile in the UK, fans queued for early doors at dozens of venues across the country, picking up tote bags, t-shirts, bookmarks and other merchandise being given away at some stores.
Book Bar in London offered exclusive t-shirts to their first 90 arrivals, as well as signed independent bookshop edition, personalised book jackets, and other goodies for for first-comers.
A mass of young women piled into Gower Street Waterstones in London just as the sun was starting to rise this morning. Posting on their Twitter, the shop revealed a slew of fans lining up outside the shop.
Prior to its release, critics hailed the new release, with the Guardian dubbing it 'breathtakingly intimate' and the Telegraph claiming it proves Rooney's greatness as a political writer.
Published by Faber, Intermezzo follows two brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek, who are grieving the loss of their father, and on the surface, appear to have little in common.
Peter is an established lawyer living in Dublin, successful in his field and assured of himself.
'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,' the summary reads.
One of those women being his first love Sylvia - a person he shares an emotional bond with, but they lack a physical relationship after an accident left her unable to have penetrative sex.
That takes Peter to the second woman in his life - 23-year-old hedonistic college student Naomi, a connection that satisfies Peter's physical needs.
His brother, on the other hand, leads a much different lifestyle and is a 22-year-old competitive chess player who admittedly struggles with social interaction.
The summary explains: '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 has seemingly exceeded expectations with her new novel Intermezzo, with a slew of critics commending the novel
After securing a copy of the new release, fans sought refuge from the chilly September morning, as they were pictured enjoying a hot drink inside the Dublin book shop
Accompanied by a picture of a packed book shop, Book Upstairs wrote on social media: 'Very grateful to all these lovely early birds for choosing to shop independent and making it such a great morning. Feeling a lotta love for our Books Upstairs community. What a buzz'
Intermezzo is set to reach bookshops on Tuesday 24 September (pictured: Sally Rooney)
Critics have hailed the new novel, with the Telegraph claiming it's proof of her expertise as a political writer
It's a tale that has received rave reviews from critics. Alexandra Harris of the Guardian said: 'Intermezzo is an accomplished continuation of the writing that made Rooney a global phenomenon. It's also more philosophically ambitious, stylistically varied, disturbing at times and altogether stranger.'
For the Telegraph's Cal Revely-Calder, the book further established Rooney's status as a 'great' political writer.
She depicts ordinary lives in unremarkable contexts, the sort any reader might know; she then shows those lives being warped by affairs of the heart that also, always, reveal disparities - economic, social, sexual - made flesh in the everyday: failed affairs, unhappy friendships, fractious groups,' Revely-Calder wrote.
Elsewhere, James Mariott of the Times wrote: 'The protagonists in the Irish author's fourth novel are sensitive, cultivated, highly intellectual and have great sex.'
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33-year-old Rooney came from humble beginnings with her own life experiences heavily influencing her work.
Born in Castlebar, a town of 10,000 or so people in County Mayo, a rural part of western Ireland, her mother was a teacher and father a technician who raised her with strong socialist values.
And this is seen massively in her work. All three novels are partly set in - or have characters from - rural western Ireland, while she has described herself as a 'solitary child' like Marianne in Normal People and went to Trinity College Dublin, like the protagonists in her first two novels.
Since Conversations with Friends came out in 2017, Sally's three novels have sold more than 1.3 million copies in the UK alone - and that's not counting pandemic sales which rocketed her back to the top of the best seller list thanks to the success of the TV adaptation of Normal People.
Normal People was the BBC's most streamed show of 2020, with an astonishing 62.7million views. It had a further 3 million views on Ireland's RTÉ Player, and even more on Hulu.
Her novel, Beautiful World, Where Are You, sold more than 45,000 copies in the UK in its first week of release, making it the bestselling hardback fiction title of 2021.
Bestselling author Sally Rooney, 33, from Ireland, has peppered her bestselling books with declarations about communism and ultra-left leaning ideas
While she's astonished the literary world becoming one of the youngest ever writers to win the prestigious Costa prize, she admits she had a 'terrible work ethic at school' and just wanted to be left to her own devices.
Sally went to an all-girls Catholic school, St. Joseph's Secondary School, and is said to have 'loathed' the experience.
She told the New Yorker: 'I just found it kind of baffling, the whole institution of school. I was, like, Does no one see that this is repressive, and that there are more of us than there are of them?'
The author boycotted homework while her parents told her to 'fight her own battles' when it came to schoolwork.
In a later interview with The Guardian, she said: 'I don't respond to authority very well. I fundamentally don't agree with accepting authority that you haven't agreed to in some way.'
She joined a writing group at 15 and went on to study at Trinity College, Dublin just like Marianne and Connell in Normal People and Frances and Bobbi in Conversations with Friends.
While she's astonished the literary world becoming one of the youngest ever writers to win the prestigious Costa prize, she admitted she had a 'terrible work ethic at school' and just wanted to be left to her own devices.
She hoped to study sociology and English, but was only accepted into the latter program.
A lot like her characters, she reinvented herself at University and became the star of the university debating team, who won the top university debating title in Europe.
The writer started her first novel, Conversations With Friends, in 2014 after starting a master's degree in American literature. When her essay about her debating experiences was spotted by a London literary agent, who asked to see more, the student sent her the manuscript.
Within months it was the subject of a seven-way bidding war between publishers. The rights eventually sold for a rumoured five-figure sum, and it was published in 12 languages at once in 2017.
Her mother Marie, was a a maths and science teacher, and father Kieran, a technician for Ireland's state-owned telecom company.
Marie spent two years volunteering in Lesotho in the eighties before becoming the director of the Linenhall, a community arts centre in Castlebar.
Sally has three novels, Normal People, Conversations with Friends and Beautiful World, Where Are You
The writer started her first novel, Conversations With Friends, in 2014 after starting a master's degree in American literature. When her 300 word essay about her debating experiences was spotted by a London literary agent, who asked to see more, the student sent her the manuscript.
The family attended church and Marie and Kieran were passionate about passing on socialist values.
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