bortset fra Virginia Woolf

at en anden verden er både nødvendig og mulig

sårbar og nogle gange både svær og fantastisk på samme tid

En opvækstroman

self-absorption and the tyrannies of chronological time

Beautiful World, Where Are You bortset fra Virginia WoolfAlice, 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