Connell and Marianne circle each other through school in a small Irish town and then through university in Dublin, never quite managing to say what they mean.
Sally Rooney tracks their relationship over several years in close, unadorned prose, moving between the two perspectives and letting class, family and social standing do quiet damage in the background. Dialogue carries most of the weight, punctuation is stripped back, and emotional detail accumulates in small scenes rather than in dramatic turns. This Faber and Faber paperback runs to 304 pages.
What the reading experience is like:
• Alternating viewpoints covering several years of two lives
• Spare contemporary prose with unmarked dialogue
• Class difference and social pressure threaded through the story
• A 304-page Faber and Faber paperback
For readers of literary fiction about intimacy and miscommunication, published by Faber and Faber and available at Boipoka.
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