Description

DATE OF RELEASE: 22 MAY 2025

From the author of the multimillion-copy bestseller Normal People, an exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family. Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties - successful, competent and apparently unassailable.

But in the wake of their father's death, he's medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women - his enduring first love Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke. Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother.

Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined. For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude - a period of desire, despair and possibility - a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking. 

Paperback 
Publication: 22 May 2025, Faber & Faber 
ISBN: 9780571365487

Extent: 448 pages

Product form
  • David's Bookshop

Intermezzo by Sally Rooney (PRE-ORDER)

    DATE OF RELEASE: 22 MAY 2025 From the author of the multimillion-copy bestseller Normal People, an exquisitely moving story about... Read more

    £9.99

    • Shipped today? Order within: May 08, 2025 16:00:00 +0100

      • Guaranteed secure & safe checkout.

        shop pay

      Description

      DATE OF RELEASE: 22 MAY 2025

      From the author of the multimillion-copy bestseller Normal People, an exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family. Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties - successful, competent and apparently unassailable.

      But in the wake of their father's death, he's medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women - his enduring first love Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke. Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother.

      Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined. For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude - a period of desire, despair and possibility - a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking. 

      Paperback 
      Publication: 22 May 2025, Faber & Faber 
      ISBN: 9780571365487

      Extent: 448 pages

      Login

      Forgot your password?

      Don't have an account yet?
      Create account