![]() ![]() She’s still just 30 and while I can’t begin to imagine the oddity of her existence over the past few years, Beautiful World, Where Are You gives us a fair idea. ![]() Rooney’s publisher recently announced the opening of a pop-up shop to sell copies of her latest novel. ![]() Amid the strenuously cerebral to-and-fro of the online Sallyology industry, arguing over how far the books reflected or betrayed the author’s avowed Marxism, it could be forgotten (though never, perversely, by her detractors) how purely and straightforwardly enjoyable Rooney is to read, which isn’t to say, as Will Self has, that Normal People represents “very simple stuff with no literary ambition”. E ven in these accelerated times it seems bewildering: was it really only four years ago that Sally Rooney made her debut? The ecstatic welcome given to Conversations With Friends, a deadpan comedy of arty Dublin millennials, was a mere curtain-raiser to the escape velocity achieved a year later by her cross-class teen love story, Normal People. ![]()
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