Claire Lowdon

A wish-fulfilment romance: Intermezzo, by Sally Rooney, reviewed

Rooney’s fourth novel is another case of compare and contrast, with various pairings of anxious characters struggling through their twenties and thirties in picturesque Dublin

Marketed as a serious literary novelist – Rooney, photographed at Faber’s office in London. [Kalpesh Lathigra]
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  • Intermezzo

    Sally Rooney

    Faber, pp. 432, £20

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