Beautiful World, Where Are You

Alice is a successful novelist, recovering from a breakdown. Felix works in a warehouse and doesn’t quite know what to make of her—but agrees to go to Rome with her anyway. Back in Dublin, Alice’s best friend Eileen is nursing the sting of a breakup and rekindling an old, complicated intimacy with Simon, a childhood friend who might be something more.

As these four lives weave in and out of each other—through emails, chance encounters, and fragile relationships—they search for meaning in a world that feels increasingly fractured. They want love, but don’t know how to hold it. They want connection, but remain guarded. They are still young, but no longer untouched by time.

With her signature emotional precision and luminous prose, Sally Rooney asks: amid all the chaos, is beauty still possible? And if so—where do we find it?