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23rd September 2024
05:36pm BST
Sally Rooney is set to release yet another novel this week and readers are already buzzing about Intermezzo.
The Irish author has already received rave reviews from critics so it looks like she has another bestseller on her hands.
Bookshops around Ireland have been planning events surrounding the book's publication day with many giving away merchandise and opening early for bookworms.
However, fans have been told not to hold out hope for an Intermezzo TV series.
Rooney recently told The New York Times that she turned down an offer for a third TV series.
Speaking about her experience of working on the TV adaptations of her books, Rooney said she felt like it was time for a break.
She said, "I felt like it was just time to take a break from that and let the book be its own thing for a while."
"The experience of working on [Normal People] had been, in so many ways, amazing — the team of people involved in it, but it did also feel like a really big job.
"Then, when the show was broadcast, that felt like a lot in terms of the amount of discourse that it generated and the amount of media attention."
Rooney said she now knows that "my books are where I belong" and that's all she wants to do.
Fans believe Rooney will reach the number-one spot following the publication of Intermezzo this week.
The book follows two brothers as they try to cope with grief and keep their relationships afloat.
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.
