The Sunday Times number one bestseller! Winner of Novel of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards, a Book of the Year in The Times, the Guardian, the Irish Times and the Financial Times. From the 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 worry about sex and friendship and the times they live in. Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?