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Trade Paperback – Used

#1 INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL BESTSELLER

ANEW YORK TIMESNOTABLE BOOK

ONE OFTIME‘S MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2021

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY BUZZFEED,ESQUIRE,THE GUARDIAN,KIRKUS REVIEWSANDFINANCIAL TIMES

The radiant new novel, “funny and smart, full of sex and love,” with a bonus short story from the acclaimed author of bestselling sensationsNormal PeopleandConversations with Friends.Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if hed 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 youngbut life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they worry about sex and friendship 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?