Critical Readings October

At our next Critical Readings event we will be taking a deep dive into the highly anticipated new novel from Sally Rooney Intermezzo

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From the author of the multimillion-copy bestseller Normal People, an exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family.
Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties - successful, competent and apparently unassailable.
But in the wake of their father's death, he's medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women - his enduring first love Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.
Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother.
Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.

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.

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There will also be plenty of time to hang out, chat and exchange book recommendations.

The ticket price is inclusive of further reading materials along with a welcome drink, and the novel is available to purchase at Lark Books from 24th September.

Further coffee, tea, alcoholic drinks and pastries will be available to purchase on the night.

Please be aware that both our event space and toilets are only accessible via stairs. Please contact us if this is an issue and we will do our best to help.

Host or Publisher LARK BOOKS