{"product_id":"midnight-opening-intermezzo","title":"Midnight opening: Intermezzo","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePre-order \u003cem\u003eIntermezzo\u003c\/em\u003e, the fourth novel by the international bestselling author Sally Rooney, \u003c\/strong\u003ewhich will be published on Tuesday 24th September 2024. Copies will be available for collection at our \u003cstrong\u003emidnight opening on Monday, 23rd September\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJoin us from 11.00 pm on Monday 23rd September for our late-night opening and celebration of all things Sally Rooney, complete with chamomile tea and cookies - pyjamas optional! Copies will be available for collection from the stroke of midnight.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eAlternatively, if you're not able to join us in person but would like to support our independent bookshop by pre-ordering\u003cem\u003e Intermezzo\u003c\/em\u003e from us, please select a shipping option and we'll post your copy to you!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNot a night owl, but a Sally Rooney fan? Why not join us for our \u003cem\u003eIntermezzo\u003c\/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nightowlbooks.pro\/products\/silent-book-club-intermezzo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003esilent book club\u003c\/a\u003e on Tuesday 24th September instead?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the book:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePeter 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIvan 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor 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.\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHardback, publishing on 24th September 2024.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sally Rooney","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43544949489835,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0614\/2178\/1163\/files\/Untitled_design_99.png?v=1724862294","url":"https:\/\/nightowlbooks.pro\/products\/midnight-opening-intermezzo","provider":"Night Owl Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}