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Beautiful World, Where Are You: A Novel Audiobook
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"Aoife McMahon is a gem of a narrator, helping create the perfect atmosphere for Rooney’s story." -Book Riot
"McMahon's acting dexterity shows in seamless shifts between points of view, characters, and emotions. Male to female, white-collar to blue-collar, anger to passion - her crisp Irish accent makes these transitions with the lightness of a lark. Likewise, via McMahon, Rooney's peerless descriptions imprint upon the mind's eye. The listener won't soon forget a silk blouse caressed like a pet, freckled arms made pink by the sun, the coast of Ireland at nightfall, or the forgiveness of a best friend." -AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winning review
Beautiful World, Where Are You is a new novel by Sally Rooney, the bestselling author of Normal People and Conversations with Friends.
Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood.
Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are still young—but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They have sex, they worry about sex, they worry about their friendships and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?
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“Narrator Aoife McMahon's voice makes the conflicts of Millennials beautiful in today's messy world…Male to female, white-collar to blue-collar, anger to passion—her crisp Irish accent makes these transitions with the lightness of a lark…Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
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“Funny and smart, full of sex and love and people doing their best to connect.”
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“A tour de force. The dialogue never falters, and the prose burns up the page.”
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“An intimate and piercingly smart story about sex and friendship.”
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“Extremely well-written longing…all rendered to a storybook-like effect.”
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“She pulls the reader in…and creates an intimacy akin to peering over the characters’ shoulders.”
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“The book moved me to tears more than once… Rooney’s best novel.”
— The Times (London)
Awards
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A #1 Amazon bestseller
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An Indie Next List Pick of the Month
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A #1 New York Times bestseller
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A Parade Magazine Pick of the Month
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A Barnes & Noble Best Book of 2021 in Fiction
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Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
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Winner of the 2021 An Post Irish Book Award for Book of the Year
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A New York Times Notable Book of 2021
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Among longlisted titles for Financial Times Books of the Year, 2021
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Among longlisted titles for Time Magazine Best Books of the Year, 2021
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Among longlisted titles for Los Angeles Times Holiday Books Guide, 2021
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Among longlisted titles for The Guardian (UK) Best Books of the Year, 2021
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Among longlisted titles for NPR Best Book of the Year, 2021
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Among longlisted titles for Buzzfeed Best Books of the Year, 2021
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Among longlisted titles for Hudson Booksellers Best of the Year, 2021
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Among longlisted titles for Amazon.com Best Books of the Year, 2021
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Among longlisted titles for Washington Post Best Books of the Year, 2021
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Winner of Goodreads Choice Awards, 2021
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Among longlisted titles for Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year, 2021
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Among longlisted titles for USA Today Best Books of the Year, 2021
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Among longlisted titles for New York Times Book Review Notable Books of the Year, 2021
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Among longlisted titles for Los Angeles Times Best Books of the Year, 2021
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About Sally Rooney
Sally Rooney is an author whose debut novel, Conversations with Friends, won the London Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award and was a finalist for the International Dublin Literary Award. She studied English at Trinity College, Dublin, and is editor of the Irish literary journal The Stinging Fly.
About Aoife McMahon
Aoife McMahon, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, is an Irish actress with extensive experience in theater and television. She won the 2002 Best Actress Gemini Award for Random Passage opposite Colm Meaney. She has also performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Old Vic and has toured the United Kingdom with Goodnight Mister Tom.