**Aoife McMahon is a gem of a narrator, helping create the perfect
atmosphere for Rooney's story. -*Book Riot
McMahon's acting dexterity shows in seamless shifts between points of
view, characters, and emotions. Male to female, white-collar to
blue-collar, anger to passion - her crisp Irish accent makes these
transitions with the lightness of a lark. Likewise, via McMahon,
Rooney's peerless descriptions imprint upon the mind's eye. The listener
won't soon forget a silk blouse caressed like a pet, freckled arms made
pink by the sun, the coast of Ireland at nightfall, or the forgiveness
of a best friend. -AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winning
review
Beautiful World, Where Are You is a new novel by Sally Rooney, the
bestselling author of Normal People and Conversations with
Friends**.**
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 get
together, they break apart. They have sex, they worry about sex, they
worry about their friendships and the world they live in. Are they
standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness
to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?
A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
