'Beautiful World; Where Are You is Rooney's best novel.' THE TIMES *The Sunday Times and Global number one bestseller* *Winner of Novel of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards* *A Book of the Year in The Times; the Guardian; the Irish Times and the Financial Times* 'A tour de force.' Anne Enright; Guardian 'Rooney's best novel yet.' Brandon Taylor; New York Times 'Get ready to have your heart broken all over again.' Red 'The book moved me to tears more than once.' 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?