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Intermezzo
A stunning novel regarding the relationship between two brothers after the death of their father.
Rooney, once again, provides us with her nuanced approa... READ MORE
Intermezzo is the novel that 'Normal People' stans have been waiting for.
Sally Rooney is not for everyone, but I am SO glad she is for me. As always her writing is introspective and revealing to the nth degree. My mind always fe... READ MORE
An absolute triumph.
This is Sally Rooney at her best. This is human love, loss, heartbreak and pain in all their beautiful complexity. This is the relationship between two bro... READ MORE
My first Sally Rooney read!
As someone who has never read a Sally Rooney novel, I am so happy that her writing worked for me. I have never been a big literary fiction reader, because ... READ MORE
No mere, trifling "step up"...
It would appear Sally Rooney has finally grown into a writer worthy of the hype.
Gone are the promising yet tentative dabs of a young artist, to be repl... READ MORE
Sally Rooney’s Magnum Opus
With Intermezzo, Sally Rooney once again tackles what it means to love. Following brothers Ivan and Peter, grief-stricken after the death of their father, ... READ MORE
Heartwarming and heartbreaking at the same time!
Rooneys writing is the epitome of gut wrenching and heart breaking literature. Normal People will always hold a special place in my heart but I think Inter... READ MORE
Rooney’s best yet
I loved the characters. Whilst they were not always likeable, Rooney has the ability to make you really empathise with people even if you don’t agree with ... READ MORE
Everything I didn’t know I needed!
Sally Rooney has seriously upped her game with this one! The characters in Intermezzo are so beautifully human, and Rooney delves into their grieving, heal... READ MORE
Quintessential Sally Rooney
A Story following the lives of two completely different brothers after the loss of their father.
Romance, grief and familial challenges, this is a perfect... READ MORE
Sally Rooney's best by far!
i don't know if i have the words to truly encapsulate this book right now, but it was blindingly beautiful. i loved the complex relationships (platonic and... READ MORE
An intimate, loving novel about healing relationships.
This is Sally Rooney's best novel yet. It has a maturity and a complexity that makes reading it a real pleasure, and characters so real that you could touc... READ MORE
Rooney fans won't be disappointed
Avid Rooney readers won't be disappointed by her fourth novel, which examines - with characteristic delicacy - the strained relationship between two grievi... READ MORE
gorgeous and moving
Thank you to Faber & Faber for the advanced proof copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
This is a stunning and delicately layered examinat... READ MORE
“Rooney’s best”
Excellently written characters, a simple yet very effective storyline and classic Rooney writing style causing unlikeable people to become likeable. I rea... READ MORE
Rooney’s best book yet!
Rooney's best book by far. Her writing has matured so much. Especially stylistically, I thouroughly enjoyed the confident leaning into the stream of consci... READ MORE
Sally Rooney at her best
This is somewhat of a departure for Rooney in terms of the characters but she's done it brilliantly. As always, her prose is wonderful and the characters s... READ MORE
Sally Rooney strikes again!
It feels like Sally Rooney reaches for more challenges with every book she writes, building on her craft. There are multiple POVs in this novel and Rooney ... READ MORE
The rewarding and addictive read you’d hoped for
To get straight into it, the great contradiction of this book: some of the poetic prose is simply sublime, important, necessary and intoxicating; at other ... READ MORE
Cinematic!
Thank you to the Publisher for an advance copy of this novel.
Brat summer would not have been complete without getting to read Rooney’s most cinematic, ... READ MORE
back on form
I loved Ivan and Margaret. Felt a real affinity with them and everything they were dealing with. Having lost my dad this year, there are these insights i... READ MORE
Fantastic!
I believe we all wonder sometimes what is going on in the other person's head, what are they feeling, what is it like to be them, what does the world look ... READ MORE
Considered, artful prose. Beautiful execution!
Rooney holds all the power... she knows how to finely weave the tangled dysfunctional webs together, to have us so tightly bound, only to leave us unraveli... READ MORE
Publisher information
- Publisher: F. A. Thorpe (Publishers)
- ISBN: 9781399169431
- Number of pages: 486
- Dimensions: 232 x 155 mm
- Languages: English
Customer Reviews
View allSally Rooney's best novel yet
Oh Sally you are so good at breaking hearts
Logic of chess versus chaos of life
For me, Rooney’s early novels found their natural home on the screen, however Intermezzo is an absolute tour de force. It has a plot that engages with both... READ MORE
a step forward for rooney as a literary fiction author
sally rooney has such a talent for writing about interpersonal relationships and human connection, and it’s something i’ll never tire of reading.
interm... READ MORE
I adored it
I wasn’t sure if this book would be for me—Intermezzo was my first time reading Sally Rooney—but I found myself completely absorbed by it.
The novel cap... READ MORE
Best Rooney so far
Just a beautiful book. Definitely her best so far. I savoured this text and really enjoyed the different perspectives, internal dialogue, literary referenc... READ MORE
Uncomfortably normal slice of life
Intermezzo - definition:
* a light dramatic, musical, or other performance inserted between the acts of a play.
* A tactical move where a player inserts ... READ MORE
thoroughly enjoyable
lovely writing on complex but everyday issues and feelings. would recommend AAA+++
A story of two brothers!
Peter and Ivan Koubek are brothers and as well as having an age difference of ten years they’re completely different in character.
It’s difficult to giv... READ MORE
Compact and complex
The sampler introduces us to two brothers- Peter and Ivan Koubek. One a lawyer, the other a chess player. They are both dealing with the recent death of th... READ MORE
Too long and tedious
I am not really sure what the is the point of this book. Over 400 pages spreading over a three month timeframe where virtually nothing happens. I struggle ... READ MORE
Brilliant!
Dashed out to buy it on day one and read it straight away.
A great read, clearly an excellent author.
But Normal People still holds by heart.
Happy to r... READ MORE
outstanding
Overall Duel perspective books are a fantastic read and sally rooney has done a fantastic job on creating a story with intense character depth and an amazi... READ MORE
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Characters which breathe off the page.
Rarely have I read a contemporary novelist with such a capacity to create full, convincing, multi-faceted characters. Each of the big four in this novel st... READ MORE
Another beautifully written fantasy of unfulfilled love between posh intellectual characters who are cowards + some other more interesting themes
It’s Rooney so you get the amazing crafts of her writing, philosophical introspection, present observations, and sophisticated characters but that’s about ... READ MORE
Intermezzo- For the hero
Act one: The hero's father succumbs to illness. The family, in its' chaotic ensemble, is left torn and bewildered with a silenced grief. Now starts the Int... READ MORE
Well-crafted contemporary relationship story.
The third book I have read by this Irish author and each one has been a 5* literary treat.
'Intermezzo' is an emotionally moving story of two brothers w... READ MORE