AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ** _ 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.