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Intermezzo
- Narrated by: Éanna Hardwicke
- Length: 16 hrs and 30 mins
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Summary
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.
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- Amazon Customer
- 27-09-24
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The narrator is amazing I was sobbing running in the rain towards the end. The book gets better and better as it goes on. Totally immersive and compelling. I’m in an age gap relationship myself and know the pros and cons. I was waiting with bated breath for the denouement - no spoilers!
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- Peachyness
- 25-09-24
Tender, beautiful, humane
I loved this book. Sally Rooney's wonderfully expanding scope and skill as a writer are clear in this exquisitely drawn and finely wrought story of two brothers and their relationships. Lovely.
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- Amazon Customer
- 25-09-24
I love love loved this
This book. Where do I start! The brothers relationship, the relationship with Christine (who they never call mum), the grief, the depression, the romantic relationships (sprinkling in a little polygamy). Sally Rooney just has a way of making characters 3D she really brings her characters to life. And the last note is the writing which is of course exceptional.
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- Paula Puddephatt
- 27-09-24
Enjoyed overall
The pace was slow, and I found that I really had to tune in with this one. Sally Rooney's usual writing style was evident, but I didn't feel as absorbed throughout as I did with Conversations With Friends and Beautiful World, Where Are You. I hope to gain more by listening again, although it is quite long.
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- tomtcat
- 28-09-24
Disappointed
Critics raved about this book so I thought I had to get it. I gave it my best try but gave up in the end.
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