Sally Rooney’s new novel Intermezzo due out this autumn

Sally Rooney’s fourth novel Intermezzo will be published 24th September, centering around her trademark themes of love, family and grief as she dissects the relationship of two brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek.

“Since I began work on this novel several years ago, its characters and their relationships have become an important part of my life,” Rooney said in a recent statement. “I hope that I’ve done them some justice in writing the book, and that they might find a place in the lives of readers too.”

With less than a decade of experience as a published novelist, Rooney has managed to build one of the world’s largest literary fanbases. Two of her novels, Conversations with Friends and Normal People, have been adapted into critically-acclaimed television miniseries, each novel selling millions of copies worldwide.

Intermezzo will tell the story of Peter and Ivan Koubek as they navigate the death of their father. Peter, a Dublin-based lawyer in his 30s, is balancing two separate relationships ––one with his first love Sylvia and the other with light-hearted college student Naomi–– while Ivan, 22, finds himself seeing an older woman with a “turbulent” past.

Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux announced the upcoming release earlier today, writing, “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.”