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By Sally Rooney

Apart from being brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties, successful and apparently unassailable, who is medicating himself to sleep after their father’s death and managing badly between Sylvia, his first love, and Naomi, a student who treats life as a joke.

Ivan is twenty-two, a competitive chess player who has always thought of himself as the awkward one, and who meets a woman fourteen years older at a club exhibition match. A novel about grief, about brothers who cannot talk to each other, and about the intervals between things.

First published 2024