Intermezzo : The global #1 bestseller from the author of Normal People

Emily says about Intermezzo:
"My favourite Sally Rooney yet! As Rooney matures as a writer so do her characters and I felt this added a new dimension and a freshness. Following two brothers reeling from their father’s death, Intermezzo is a portrait of a fractured family and an examination of how grief affects us all differently. I found the story to be completely absorbing and I rushed through it in a few days, I plan to revisit it and do a more considered re-read - just as soon as I get it back from the long list of friends who have asked to borrow it!"

THE GLOBAL #1 BESTSELLER

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.