Read this when
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Years of 'what are we' between best friends, until someone finally says it out loud. 📩
Who it's for
Eileen and Simon are one of fiction's most recognisable situationships: years of closeness, sleeping together, phone calls late at night, and neither one saying what this is.
Feelings it meets
What it is
Two Irish best friends in their late twenties, novelist Alice and magazine editor Eileen, write each other long emails about beauty, class and the state of the world while each circles a man she can't quite define things with: Alice with Felix, a warehouse worker she met online, and Eileen with Simon, the friend she has known since she was fifteen.
Where to find it
In print, from libraries, and as an e-book and audiobook.
Before you start
Heads up: Frank sex scenes.
Age: Adult literary fiction (mature content)
The course of true love never did run smooth.William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 1, Scene 1
