Intermezzo by Sally Rooney

Intermezzo by Sally RooneyAside 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

and in an incapacitated state

The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice

Catherine's painstaking research led to an ongoing quest for justice as

but there's a problem

Akwaeke Emezi

deals with the Mafia

We admired the vivid ways the book evokes daily

and of Roth himself

Or will she find a way to change her fate

Spine-tingling

The one steadfast and honourable figure in this corrupt world is Dobbin with his devotion to Amelia

turns his attention to Ireland