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![]() ![]() During the writing of Conversations with Friends and Normal People, she has said, “I wasn’t thinking, what is a voice? What is a protagonist? It was all so natural.” But now, with millions awaiting her next publication, “I sat down and thought, wait a minute, what is a novel?” The result, as might be guessed, is a more self-conscious book than her first two, but it is not, I think, a worse one. Having written the first and most of the second with a liberating sense of anonymity, Rooney had to approach her third novel from a completely different perspective. ![]() Sally Rooney’s first two novels were smash hits-her debut, Conversations with Friends, earning her the title of Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year in 2017, and her second, Normal People, being an instant bestseller that was later adapted into a BBC/RTE television drama that infatuated the country, nay, the world, during the first, frantic days of the first Covid lockdown. Foreign Policy & International Relationsīeautiful World, Where Are You was written under considerable pressure. ![]()
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